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Book Should Be Free

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What kind of books that you like to read?? Fiction, history, humor or maybe adventure??? Do you have money to buy it?? If not, just visit www.bookshouldbefree.com . In this site you will find about 3000 audio books +ebooks which are free to download. There are about 100 genres in this site such as languages, adventure, children, history, fantasy, literature, fiction, poetry, romance, religion, teen, mystery and many others. The books not only in English but there are also the others book in different language such as German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Italian, and many others. This site also provides the other link about the books and then you can also do reviewing after listening or reading to the story.

By using this site you can learn English by listening to the story so then you can enrich your vocabulary and improve you pronunciation also learn to be focus to get the information. J

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Good Reading Articles and Rich Test Preparation

Good Materials in Easy Way to Learn

by Irma Fitriani

http://www.fullspate.net/english-articles-advanced/ or

http://www.fullspate.net/

Fullspate.net is a website that provides rich materials about ECPE materials, reading materials, book suggestion, test preparation and many others.

Fullspate is founded by a man with a PhD who has rich knowledge  in  the EFL coursebooks,  and finally he decided to share his ability with the English students via website. 

This web provides the users with reach reading materials in a high standard such for the upper intermediate and advance learner in the simple way, so it is easier for the to get the reading materials without feel confusing about the location.  There are more that dozens of the article that rich of new vocabulary and information.

                                                     

some of the reading materials

In test preparation this web provides the user with a lot of kind of test and some links where they can find good kind of those test. There are also many kind of the test like grammar test example, speaking test, vocabulary test, reading test, and many others.
Not only providing test, this web also give some tips and test example that could help you to find succeed in your future test.

In book suggestion, there are some book reviews that can be your guide to finding an interesting book as your reading materials.

If you kind of a serious learner who are really want to improve your reading skill, this web is a good choice for you. For those who like learning in simple with high quality of resources, you can directly try this website.

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The Online Books Page

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu is kind of website which provides million books for education that learners can read or download it freely. This is an interesting online library because there are many kinds of books are available in here. There are five menu; Book Online, News, Features, Archives and Indexes, and The Inside story. Each menu divides in some categories.

“Book Online” has six categories; Search our Listings, New Listing, Author, Titles, Subject, and Serials. Those categories are for make learners find the books easily because learners find can the book by the author, titles or serials.

“News” has three categories; Find more free books at your library, Blog (Everybody's Libraries), and Latest Book Listings.  The content of the news is about this website.

“Archives and indexes” has some major sources and indexes in all language which is general and specialized. Some of the categories are non-English languages, children’s literature, drama, historical, music, dance, poetry, politics, religion and many others.

“The Inside story” provide information about THE ONLINE BOOK PAGE. In here learners can find what The Book Online Page is, ask question, request or see some list of book in progress, and the other link for online book.

Let’s improve our English by enrich vocabulary and knowledge!!!! J Gung ho!!!

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The New York Times

One of the ways for mastering reading comprehension is by reading a lot. Many kinds of reading text which can use for practicing such as novel, poetry, newspaper, etc.  For this posting I would like to tell you about newspaper website from New York, that is, The New York Times (an International news) website. This site categorize the news in four section, they are today’s paper, most popular, video , and U.S Edition . Not only that, but also you can find the news in the specific section because about eighteen menu are available in this site. Moreover, each menu provides sub menu. For instance, in World menu, there are five categories ; Africa, Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe , and Middle East. By reading this site you can enrich common vocabulary in newspaper. 

This site also provides digital subscriber, so can get updating   news on your smartphone , tablet, or all  digital access. But you should pay for that apps. Each apps has different price.
link : http://www.nytimes.com/

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Improve Your Reading Skills with Leeds English Language School

Improve Reading Skill

By Irma Fitriani

http://free-online-english.com/  or
http://free-online-english.com/index.php/category/home/reading

the homepage of the web 

Leeds English Language School web is a web accredited by British Council and private  language school in Leeds, UK. There are many learning materials from the school that made available to students who learning English as second language. This web provide service in many language include Bahasa Indonesia. The user can choose some skill in learning English, such as Reading, Listening, Speaking, Writing, and some Test such as IELTS test. Moreover, this web also let the users who interest to have study in UK to know more about it, and also contact them more.

In reading, the users can choose level base on their skill there are Elementary until Advanced. For Intermediate students, there are 3 choices there are Pre-Intermediate, Intermediate, and Upper Intermediate.  After you choose the reading text you can directly go to some the test. Basically, both test and text in every Intermediate level have the same form, but mostly text and test in higher level will be more difficult.

the example of the text and the test

What I like most from this web is, it has a colourful display and well ordered lesson, so it make the new users easy to use the web. 

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The Language Lab

The Language Lab
By: Irma Fitriani

http://www.language-lab.org

 

the appereance of the web

Just like its name this web is a place where you can enrich you language skill through reading the current issues and do some exercise. This web provides you in three language, British English, American English, and France. make sure you choose the England or America flag. 

There are four main sub menu on the web, there are lesson menu where you can find a lot of reading text, games menu where you can try to play a crossword, forum menu where teachers can share ideas and have discussion among other teacher from around the world, FAQ-Forum Answer and Question, where you could find the answer of your question about the web.

Finally I can say that, if you just spend 15 minutes of your time each day to explore and try this web you will have better skill in reading and vocabulary.

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Adult Learning Activities

Adult Learning Activities

by: Irma Fitriani

http://www.cdlponline.org

(Up, the homepage of the web ; Down, some activities)

This website is a right place for build reading skills and life skill. Here you can find many reading skills from different topic. There are 11 topics here there are health, service , nature, money, law, education, family, housing , and work. Every topic has more than twenty article that you can chose. In reading the article you can also listening the article and do some activities such as matching game, listen than spell a word, and answer the reading evaluation.

This web is is made in United States exactly in California so they mostly provide articles from United States and some others from Europe, Africa, and Asia. However those article will improve your knowledge at least your reading and vocabulary comprehension.

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Read Book Online

               Read Book Online

One of the ways to improve reading skill is by reading a lot, in this posting I would like to tell you about www.readbookonline.net. This site provides many kinds of reading texts, they are fictions/novels , short stories ,poems, essay, plays, and notifications. You can find about six thousand ebooks from hundreds of authors,  such as  Arthur Conan Doyle, Jane Austen,  Edgar Allan Poe, and more authors. It’s easy to use this site, you can find the reading text by choosing the chatagories on left side or sort by the authors or all tiltes which are alphabetis from A to Z,so it’s easier to find the text. This site also has three special pages which provide many award winning publications. Those are Greatest Novels of The 20th Century, Works from Nobel Prize Winners, and Pulitzer Prize Winning Books. At the end of the page there is a link to contact the site, if you have questions or coment.

Note:  The weaknesses of this site is you need to read the text online because you couldn’t download it to print it, but you can copy the text then print it, it’s up to you . 

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Awesome Story and Article

Awesome Story and Article
By: Irma Fitriani

http://www.awesomestories.com/

Awesome stories is a web that provide the users to have newest article specifically and story (mostly about real past events) in many categories.it has several categories they are biography, disasters, trial, flicks, history, philosophy, sports, and arts. Every category has more than a hundred article in it. It doesn't only has  article and story but also visual vocabulary, lesson plans, radio, lesson materials slide shows, video (watching news) , and audio clip ( listening story), documents ( book and other educated resources), images (about world's historical moments). The article and story it support by many experts in education from United states and the main webs is at the Michigan

The web's aim is to help educators and individuals find original sources located at national archives, libraries, universities, museums, historical societies and government created website.This website is really helpful to enrich the users' knowledge so much especially abut the recent news and wold's historical moments.

some of the stories in the web

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BrainPOP

BrainPOP

(Animated Educational Site)
By: Irma Fitriani

http://www.brainpop.com/

Left,outside appearance;Right,inside one of the page

subjects in the web

Brainpop is an animated educational site which have educational contents that support educators, engage students, and bolsters achievement. It provides many content with a specific materials in every subject, they have 6 subject here-English, science, mathematics, social studies, music and arts,  and engineering and technology-. It also has many sophisticated applications, such as educational movies, free games, tips, and still many more. In educational movie, it has more than a hundred movies that the users could get by doing registration first, it spend a few dollars. but don't worry, it also has some free movies.

In learning English, BrainPOP has several main study such as reading, grammar, writing, and book references. Specifically, in reading the users can choose what are they concern because it provides them much alternative in reading.

I think this website is different, because here students can improve their knowledge not from reading text but from animated movie which is really interesting without any buffering. I am sure students can spend a long time to learn from this web.  It is very useful for the one who are really love to watch and lazy to read or students with who are have a problem to concentrate.

 some selection in reading

one of the movie in reading section

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Into the Book

Into the Book

(Reading from Different Way)
by: Irma Fitriani

the appearance of the text

Categorize: Reading Text

http://reading.ecb.org/student/index.html

This website is an interactive website which was developed by the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board, with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and a team of experienced educators. It is produced by Wisconsin Public Television and the Agency for Instructional Technology. The aims are to improve students’ ability in thinking and their reading comprehension. Students also can watch video of real classroom where a group of ordinary students use powerful learning strategies when reading— visualize, predict, summarize, etc.

I think this website is interesting because, here students can do reading comprehension activities with many reading texts in colourful and prim display. Students will not bored easily because the display is not shown an ordinary homepage but show them an animation book.

Here teachers have their own webs with teacher featuring music, video clips, classroom design ideas, posters, teacher guides lesson, lesson plans, and lots more.

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GFClearnfree

GFClearnfree

(Studying Many Things and Entertaining)

by: Irma Fitriani

This website provides the users to improve their ability in computer, math, and of course reading. It has 750 different lessons and can for 200 countries in different territories all over the world. It provides many languages from many countries so for the one who are not using English can easily use this website. In reading, the users can find many reading text, literature, vocabulary exercise and many others. It also has a good display with eye catching button and good orderly of the pages, so the users will not get bored easily. The best thing is the users can have all of those, freely. Students can read and listening English text. There are approximately 140 reading. In reading text itself there are many kinds of topic so the students can find their favourite topic and add their references about the other topic. I believe that by using this website it will help adults at all levels become better readers and help non-native speakers improve their English vocabulary and reading comprehension. 

When the students are tired, they can try a game that makes your ability in reading and vocabulary boost. Not only practice reading you can also have chatting, discussion, watch videos, and many others.

For teacher, this website can help them to increase students motivation in reading, understanding technology, and math. The interesting display will attract students to use it with them. There are also others service like game, video that really liked by the students.  

 (Some kinds of themes in the text, one of the game)

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Time for Kids

Time for Kids

(News and Sophisticated Application)
By : Irma Fitriani

the appearance of the blog

This website is like a weekly classroom news magazine with wide news from around the world which is made by kids and teenagers, so it have different angle. I am sure it is the best website which provide the have nonfiction texts. not only news student can also learn social studies, science, or math.  

Here are some applications where the teachers and students could use :

• The Magazine : great writing and vivid imagery help make reading a blast for students.
• Digital Resources : Exclusive, subscriber only access to great teaching resources such as lesson plans and worksheet, video with high quality resolution, read aloud, slide show, power word, teacher guide, quizzes, even debate.
• Common Core State Standards : Every issue of the classroom magazine addresses.
• TIME magazine : 1 year ( 56 issue) of the iconic news magazine included with full year subscription for 10 or more students.
• and still many others.

This website provide many items for teaching and students in teaching learning process, and if you typical of a person who like to get newest information from around the world, this website could be one of your best choice.

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News in Levels

News in Levels

Reading newspaper can also help student to improve their skill in English, here I would like to tell you about  www.newsinlevels.com. This website shows you the other methods to improve you reading skill in English. It helps you to enrich your vocabulary and also listening skill, because they provide many articles also with the audio and video. They will lead you level by level:  Level one for beginner, level two for intermediate, and level three for advanced. Each level has seven sub menu (articles) ; news, sport, nature, history, interesting, funny and information. That’s kind of articles that you can find in this website. If you don’t know your level yet, you can find out in “Test your level” room or if you get confused about how to use this website, just open room “how to use”.

They also provide online dictionary , Google and Longman. Then if you want asking question or giving  comment , you can contact them in “contact” room, or you want to have a discussion, it’s below the articles that you read, you should use your Facebook account for discussion section. 

you only need 10 minutes every section

the appearance of the blog

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www.worldstories.org.uk ( Read Stories and Learn World's Culture)

World Stories

by : Irma Fitriani

If you like to read story, fairy tale, and legend, from all over the world, http://www.worldstories.org.uk/can be your best choice. Here you can find much collection includes tales and new short stories from around the world. The stories are available in the 21 languages in the world. You can choose each story from your favourite country by choosing in story map. These stories can be read, listened to and downloaded in English and their original language.

This website helps you to support your language skill and encourage your cultural awareness whilst also aiming to inspire students to both discuss their responses and get creative. 

 Teachers can use it to support to improve students skill in reading. This website is designed for easy use in the classroom, both in whole class settings and to support guided reading. These website also provide a discussion page for teacher, so teacher can discuss many things with other teachers all over the worlds especially from United Kingdom.

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