Shared Reading with Technology!

On Thursday I am doing my technology lesson. I will be incorporating technology into my shared reading lesson. The students are going to be doing a choral reading of a poem from You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Fairy Tales to Read Together. I will have the words on a PowerPoint and project the words and some of the images from the book onto the screen. I am going to have a pointer so that the students read altogether and stay reading at the same rate. Although it is helpful for all the students to be able to see the words at the same time, I felt like this was not using technology to the greatest advantage. I have linked some of the words in the poems to outside articles or images. After we read the poems, we are going to discuss them and I will have students click on the links that interest them. I've started creating the PowerPoint, and I am pretty excited about this lesson. My mentor teacher also is excited for me to teach this, and I hope the students will be engaged in the lesson and learn from it as well!