Using the Reading Salad.

Students learned about how important it is to be a good thinker especially while reading.  Not only do readers need to read the text but they also need to stop and think about the story for comprehension. One way we have thought about this process is using a salad as an example.  Students understand that ingredients mixed with the lettuce make a salad nice and tasty.  Students were asked to think about the reading and thinking as the tomatoes and the lettuce.  The act of putting the different ingredients into the bowl represents a reader doing both thinking and reading. Students really enjoy using this analogy to practice and apply this concept.  We are no longer FAKE readers but REAL readers.