Sometimes we all have to see it to believe it! Kids aren't any different. The Reading Salad experience allows children to create a mental picture in their thead they soon won't forget. It's also helpful by providing a graphic picture of metacognition to help reinvorce what they've experienced. We've all had thoughts, feelings, and life experiences that builds our schema (background knowledge). We used a lint roller to demonstrate how we pick up experiences throughout our lives. I want students using that schema when they read. We all learn in different ways. Some people can simply hear something while others have to experience it. I am a very visual learner and like to see words and information arranged in graphic organizers. We used a real salad bowl and green and red cards to represent text and thinking (lettuce and tomatoes). :) As I modeled real reading (thinking about what I just read) we would add our salad ingredients. By the end of our reading, our salad should have more lettuce than ingredients or our reading should have more thinking than text. :) We we "think about their thinking we are using Metacognition. We also used a thought bubble to help support being Metacognitive. Using it allowed us to demonstrate how proficient readers think while they are reading...basically listening to that little voice inside our heads. No, we aren't crazy...LOL!!! We are using our conversational voice to merge our text with our thinking. The students really enjoyed this lesson, and hopefully by modeling this process they understand the importance of these concepts.
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