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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Open Diary

Open Diary is a website for you to explore your writing skill. The website is focus on writing skill and reading skill, because here you can make your diary, and you start to write and write. The website also gives you several articles for you to read them. There are ten menus in the website. First, home, it is a home page of this website, then Second, read diaries, here you can find a lot of articles that you may read them, read diaries menu has five sub-menus, they are recent entries, members index, geographic index, weekly themes, and readers choice. Third, there is a Circles menu with it sub-menu is Diary Circle, it is for your references or your materials in writing. Then Forth, there is a Interests menu, and there are its sub-menus, they are interests and interests matcher. The goal of this menu is for letting you choose the same topic of your writing with the other writers or the members of this website, so you can share each other. Fifth, search menu. It helps you to find the other members by  searching the names or searching same interests, so you can have new friends. Sixth, there is Random menu, the menu is suitable for you to find the articles from the different writers. Then we go to Seventh menu, it is Board menu. Eighth, Help menu which can you use for finding information or contact to the administrator of this website. Ninth, log in menu, it menu for log in with your account, after you register on the last menu, Tenth, it is Join. Here you can make your account for your writing.

Let’s join and write write write 🙂

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Self-Study English Vocabulary Quizzes is a complete website for you to improve your English Skills. There are Grammar, vocabulary, Idioms, Homonym, and so on. The website let you having the learning activity by contributing to the website.

Here are a piece of the example of the quizzes in the website:

• 34 Easy Questions (Charles Kelly)
• Assorted Questions (Vera Mello)
• Short Answers (Carlos Gontow)

Not only the quizzes, in this website you can also find some articles, learning to use conjunction, there are dialogues also, how to choice the suitable words in terms of using English in communication. Then, the website is not only for learners, but also it is for teachers.

The website divided the materials into different levels, from low to the high levels; Easy, Easy to Medium, Medium, Medium to Difficult, Difficult. I highly recommend this website for you to learning English, it is the complete one.

Happy learning! ^__^

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Online dictionary for 24 languages is a good website to have the translation from one language to the other languages for you. The website has five menus, they are Dictionary, Vocabulary, Forum, Games. First, Dictionary is a menu to translate the language that you want, there are among 37 dictionaries in this menu. Second, Vocabulary is the menu that gives you some word in the other language,  it is different from dictionary menu. Third, Forum. It s the menu for asking the website to the admin, this is for such as the rules for comment or asking questions in the website. Forth, the menu is Games,  not only the translator which you can get from this website, but also you can have fun with it by opening the games menu, so in order to make your learning is not being bored, you can play the games and improve your English skill by this menu. The last menu is more by bab.la. here you can find a lot materials that can support you in learning English.

So, Online dictionary for 24 languages is one of many website that can you choose as a reference for supporting your learning English and the web is fairly completed so that you can explore this web for Learning English. 🙂

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Interactive English Online is a website for learning English which you can use it by connecting to the internet. There are ten menu in this website. First, Pronunciation, which can you use for speaking and listening activity. There are thirteen units in the first menu, they give you materials about minimal pairs. Second, Takao’s Great Adventure is a menu that contains some recordings from Japanese girl who come to Canada, she is going to tell you her experiences in Canada, in this menu you’re listening skill will be improved by practicing listening to the recordings. Then the website has movies and slides menu, this menu give you several movies and also slides to make you’re English better, these are the example materials that in this menu.

Halloween 2005 slide show

Halloween 2005 Flash Movie (12.6mb)

Watch the festivities from Chinese New Year 2005 (Quicktime file, will open in a new window 4.8mb)

Christmas Carols by our students 2004

The next menu is Chalk ‘n Talk, it is the menu that give you some videos to make you understand the old fashioned way to teach. Culture Shock is the next menu which contains the materials especially for improve your reading skill, because here you can find a text that contains 13 paragraphs. Not only the 13 Paragraphs, but also here you can have the other thing; such as quiz.

The next menu is going to review is global view, here you can see the countries all over the world with their features; such as from

• Mexico
• Brazil
• Bulgaria
• South Korea

Then, there is a menu called our teaching staff. When you curious about the teacher of this website, you can open this menu, then you can see the people who contribute as the teachers. By clicking the photo’s of the person, you can get the information about the person himself.  The other menus in this website are Online DVD guide, Help files, and the last menu is Explanation. ^_^

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Educationworld.com is a useful web for all of learners in the world especially they are who live in a country that has a summer because this web contains some of the best children’s summer reading lists. Here, the learners can also find an overview of great lists that them or their school’s staff might use to create their own summer reading program. So, summer reading is essential for kids as learners.  The web with summer reading lists offering bundles of reading suggestions. There are more than a dozen of those lists. The selections in thios website offers excellent resources for students who are searching for something good to read, parents who are looking tohelp their children locate great books, or the teachers who might be compiling reading lists to their students to take home this summer or anytime.

First, don’t miss EducationWorld’s 2013 Reading Lists. These fun lists were compiled from sources including The Houston Area Independent Schools Library Network and The Parkway (MO) Summer Reading List Committee:

Kindergarten
First Grade
Second Grade
Third Grade
Fourth Grade
Fifth Grade
Sixth Grade
Seventh Grade
Eighth Grade

And here are this web’s 2012 lists:

Kindergarten
First Grade
Second Grade
Third Grade
Fourth Grade
Fifth Grade
Sixth Grade
Seventh Grade
Eighth Grade

This website also has some of related items. They are :

• Cathy Puett Miller on Literacy: Encouraging Independent ReadingIn Summertime — or Any Time
• School Issues: Glossary: R
• Education World At Home
• Articles by Date
• June Jubilee!

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Educationworld.com is a useful web for all of learners in the world especially they are who live in a country that has a summer because this web contains some of the best children’s summer reading lists. Here, the learners can also find an overview of great lists that them or their school’s staff might use to create their own summer reading program. So, summer reading is essential for kids as learners.  The web with summer reading lists offering bundles of reading suggestions. There are more than a dozen of those lists. The selections in thios website offers excellent resources for students who are searching for something good to read, parents who are looking tohelp their children locate great books, or the teachers who might be compiling reading lists to their students to take home this summer or anytime.

First, don’t miss EducationWorld’s 2013 Reading Lists. These fun lists were compiled from sources including The Houston Area Independent Schools Library Network and The Parkway (MO) Summer Reading List Committee:

Kindergarten
First Grade
Second Grade
Third Grade
Fourth Grade
Fifth Grade
Sixth Grade
Seventh Grade
Eighth Grade

And here are this web’s 2012 lists:

Kindergarten
First Grade
Second Grade
Third Grade
Fourth Grade
Fifth Grade
Sixth Grade
Seventh Grade
Eighth Grade

This website also has some of related items. They are :

• Cathy Puett Miller on Literacy: Encouraging Independent ReadingIn Summertime — or Any Time
• School Issues: Glossary: R
• Education World At Home
• Articles by Date
• June Jubilee!

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