Reading About Writing at About.com is a website to help the learners or the students to improve their skills in English especially about writing. This website is not only about writing but also english reading, grammar and composition, word and sentence, etc. But the major skill in this sites is about writing skill. Grammar and composition is one of a number of sites about.com that can help the students to improve their writing skill.

This sites is also contains some relative websites to improve the learners’ skill in English such as esl writing exercises, reading, and US Journal Call for paper.

This websites also provided some tips to do homework, about classic literatur, about English as a second language, etc. This websites also provided some of related articles such as 10 (ten) ways to improve your writing, writing a research paper in archeology, seven secrets to success in English 101-how to success in Freshman composition, the 25 absolute best web resources for writers, and the best American spiritual writing in 2008- review of the best American, etc.

So, the learners or the students can join this website to help them to improve thei skills in English especially writing skills,

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www.universalclass.com/i/course/building-children-reading-skills is a website that teel us about an English online course in Australia. This class is for improve children’s  reading skills. This website also tell us what are best  techniques for developing children’s reading skill.  This class not only about improve children’s reading skills but also learn about accounting, alternative medichine, arts and photoghrapy, business, career training, computer training, cooking, crafts and hobbies, enterpreneurship, finance, general education, health and medichine, history, games and garden, homeschooling, how to / do it for your shelf, language arts, etc.

The advantages that will the students get from this course are :

1. Students will be able to identify the purpose and value of improving reading skills.
2. Students will be able to identify and define the major components of reading instruction.
3. Students will be able to apply strategies to improve reading skills in each of the major components of reading instruction.
4. Students will be able to transfer knowledge learned about reading development into their own personal experiences or that of others to increase reading skill.

The students can join this course by twitter, facebook, or pinit.

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www.kidsbookshelf.com is a website contains about many books that can we use to learn about English. It is because when we read those books in this website we can get many new words or new vocabulary. We can choose some of books’ categories in this website. They are great books from publisher or great books from Harper Collin. This website also provided other categories books such as fantasy, mystery, science fiction, nonfiction, biography, historical fiction, poetry, fables or fairy tales, and other. We can vote one of category from all of those.

This website provided author spotlight, book reviews, newsletter, articles, today in history, eBooks, web links, about kidsbookshelf, etc.

We also can publish our work here because this website provided a link that can we use to publish our work. It is publish your work’s category. We can submit our writing, poems, or short stories. So, we can learn and make a new hing in this website.

I really suggest you as a learner to join this website and learn from it. If you want to join ths website, you can contact the author of this website.

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www.schoolexpress.com is a useful website to improve our skill in English because this website contains many categories. This website is for first grade to eighth grade, algebra, and geometry.  This website also combine with free thematic units that can we use to learn more. We can learn more in this categories because after we join it, that is their newsletter, we will receive one free thematic unit every week. Then, we can learn about new items they add to the site. The, we will receive a confirmation email when we subscribe. We also can get another free links in this site. They are online and offline math, funtimes games, activity fun, and 17,000 + free worksheet.

This website is also provide sites for educators and families, educational apps, member login, ultimates membership, and free yellow stone units. Sites for educators and families contains some links such as math, reading, teacher supplies, toys, games, a variety of site, online school, and science. Ultimates membership currently offers 224 thematic unit eWorkbooks, 170 activity fun eWorkbooks, and 262 subject eWorkbooks.

We can visit this website in facebook, twitter, pinit, share, and email. After we enterring our email addres, we can join this website.  So, the learners who want to improve their English skills must join this website.

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www.adrianbruce.com is an useful website to improve your reading skill. This website contains some categories such as reading games, stress busters, math games, educational software, problems puzzles, homework ideas,  art, poetry lessons, teaching writing, what kid’s book?, my virtual library, science, classroom blogging, motivational posters, chess posters, readers theatre scripts, the ace kid’s poscast, morning tea, phonics posters, ICT integration ideas, and photography.

I will give you explanation about some categories of this website. They are reading games and math games. Sorry because I didn’n explain all of this website categories because there are many categories in this website.

Reading games category is a category of this website which is contains some links such as reading games, word games and best children’s books, more reading resources, improve comprehension skill, phonics posters, word games, resources for your library, etc.

Math games category is a category of this website which is contains some links such as math games, math display, brain teasers, new fanpage, number, space and geometry, etc.

If the learners want to join this website they can follow by twitter, facebook, or send e-mail to this writer that is Brian, the owner of this website. So, if you want to get more information you can visit this website.

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Englishforeveryone.org  is a page that can use for finding complete list of high quality reading comprehension worksheets created specially by  the team for students or the learners in grade levels K-12. This worksheets elicit the use of critical thinking skills at every level. While some questions ask the reader to peruse the passage for particular details, most questions involve the use of deductive reasoning, conclusion making, logical inference, sequential analysis, tonal awareness, and an understanding of scope. These materials are highly effective in supplementing the education of verbal reasoning and critical thinking skills on behalf of the reader.this materials in this page will easy to use by the learners to improve their skill in English especially in reading skill. What is more, these materials are applicable for students or the learners of all ages and ability levels. Many of the resources in this worksheets are available in online quiz form at our sister site, ReadTheory.

This page also explaine what is reading comprehension. It is Reading comprehension is defined as the level of understanding of a text.

If you like reading comprehension, you can read in ReadTheory because the website offers over 1000 reading comprehension quizzes and automatically adapts to student reading ability. On ReadTheory, students can take quizzes, enters contests, create avatars, earn points and achievements, and more. Teachers also can create virtual classes and track their students’ performance using graphs, charts, and percentages via this website. If the students want to join this website, they just need to click the banner on tjhis website.

This page also contains about theory critical reading comprehension worksheets. Our critical reading worksheets teach students to read and think critically. After reading a passage, students are tested on their ability to draw inferences, understand scope and global concepts, find or recall details, and infer the meaning of useful vocabulary words. Unlike other worksheets in this section, these lack images.

This page also contains about some of passages that very usefull for the students. So, too many advantages that can the students get from this page.

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Storylineonline.net is a website contains all of stories that provided for the learners to improve their skill especially in reading skill because this website provided many interesting stories. There are more than thirty stories in this website. They are The Tooth, The Rainbow Fish, Harry the Dirty Dog, To be a Drum, Guji-guji, Sebastian’s Roller Skates, Sophie’s Masterpiece, Stellaluna, Wilfrid Gordon Mcdonald Partridge, No Mirrors in my Nana’s House, The Night I Followed the Dog, Thank you Mr.Falker, My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother, Knots on a Counting Rope, Brave Irene, A Bad Case of Stripes, Private I Guana, Somebody Loves You, Mr.Hatch, The Polar Express, Me and My Cat, Dad, are you the tooth fairy?, White Socks Only, Romeow and Drooliet, Enemy Pie, etc. Those are the titles of stories that provided by this websites.

You can join this website by their grup on facebook, twitter, and youtube. The learners also can view the stories in the link that this websites provided. Hopely, after the learners read the stories in this website, they have some progression in their reading skill.

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Starfall.com opened in September of 2002 as a free public service to teach children to read with phonics. This website’s systematic phonics approach, in conjunction with phonemic awareness practice, is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education, homeschool, and English language development (ELD, ELL, ESL). Starfall is an educational alternative to other entertainment choices for children.

In May of 2009, starfall.com  released the Starfall Kindergarten Reading and Language Arts Curriculum . This website’s method of instruction motivates children in an atmosphere of imagination and enthusiasm, provides opportunities for child-directed instruction, and supports English language learners and struggling readers learning alongside their peers.

This website contains some links to help the learners  to enjoy their reading because starfall.com provided interesting links such as ABCs, Learn to Read, It’s Fun to Read, and I’m Reading. All of this links contains different useness. For examples, in ABCs category teaches letter-sound relationships by providing a kid-friendly navigation system that explicitly focuses on each letter of the alphabet, in learn to read category there are fifteen links to easier to read, in it’s fun to read category there are seven parts to learn such as all about me, art galery, music, magic, poetry, tongue twisters, and bird riddles, finally in I’m reading category contains six parts for the learners to read. They are three little plays, fiction and non fiction, comic, folk tales, greek myths and chinese fables.

So, the learner should visit The Starfall Store for other low-cost phonics journals and books paralleling this website because the learners can learn more from this website.

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http://www.Learnglish.net is an excellent  website to test our capability in English. This website has five levels to learn. Each of level has different parts of English skill. They are :

1. Level 1.

This level provided  grammar, reading,listening, speaking, and vocabulary. It is for elementary level.

1. Level 2.

This level provided grammar, reading, listening and vocabulary. This level called pre-intermediate level.

1. Level 3.

This level provided grammar, reading, listening,speaking and vocabulary. This level called intermediate level.

1. Level 4.

This level provided grammar, reading, listening, and vocabulary.

1. Level 5.

This level provided grammar, reading, listening, and writing.

This website also provided reading comprehension sample test 1, 2, 3, and 4 for intermediate level.you will easier to know your capability because this site contains with the key answer.

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