Photostory 3 is a free Microsoft program that enables users to create audiovisual presentations using photos, which can enhance reading comprehension in language learning. It offers tools for editing pictures, adding narration, and incorporating music, making lessons more engaging for junior high school students struggling with reading. Suggestions for its use include visual mini-lessons, short story synopses, and personal introductions.

1. Using Photostory 3
to Improve Reading
By: A. Najib Tuanany

2. What is Photostory 3?
Microsoft's Photo Story is a free
Windows program that lets you
create audiovisual presentations
out of your photos and images.
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You can quickly crop, rotate, and
edit your pictures;
personalize them with captions and
titles;
and add sound effects, narration,
and background music.

3. How can it be used in
language learning?
Especially reading
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4. Teaching English is
not easy because it
requires motivation
and creativity in order
to make a good
condition and
achievement of
English learning and
teaching goal.
Students in junior
high school still find
difficulties in
reading. For
example,
when the students
read a text, they
cannot comprehend
the text because the
text is very long. For
that reason, the
students need and
interesting
techniques to
improve their
reading
comprehension.
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5. Some ideas for using Photo Story
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Create visual mini-lessons
Create fun ways to teach objectives
Create short story or novel synopses
Create a movie to introduce yourself to the class
Create a movie about describing thing or place

6. How to use it?

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Select begin a new
story

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Import pictures

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You can record your
narration
You can
change the
way the
pictures
transition

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You can select or
create music for
background

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Finally, export it as a
movie file

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An example of Descriptive Text Using photostory
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Compared to
this text.
Which one is more interesting.
Reading this text or the photosory version?

14. Thanks!
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