Read Aloud-Shared Reading

I think shared reading is good for children when the teacher or parent is reading and the children are following along. Whether it is a read aloud or echo reading I think that is good for children to learn to read but one thing that I am totally against is choral reading. The day we did that activity in class I thought choral reading was horrible!  I could not even understand anything I was reading nor what Karen, Natalie, and Norma were reading either, it was a total reading disaster (if you can call it reading)! I see no point in choral reading if one cannot even comprehend what he/she is reading.