Many of today's students are left disengaged by the direction of their literacy journey once they reach the middle grades, or at times, before they ever leave elementary school. The once enjoyable process of becoming literate becomes a past memory. Students are expected to take their literacy journey into an academic world that often lacks ways of showing them how to translate the skills they learned in the past to extend their knowledge. Although students often understand and use concepts they were taught, it is the selection of the language and the way teachers approach instruction that often causes a disconnect. By changing the language, teachers can address academic slumps beginning as early as 3rd and 4th grade and cultivate stronger student interest in reading and literacy. This purpose of this paper was to describe ways teachers may change the language with a deeper integration of technology.