Thinking While Reading Equals Meaningful Reading!

We read a story and listened to a song called, Don't Laugh at Me by Mark Willis. While the class was reading the text we were adding green pieces of paper to a salad bowl to represent text. During the story students were sharing examples of what their brain was thinking while reading. At that time, students would add red paper to the salad bowl to represent the readers thinking. The point was, in order to be a good reader you must be thinking while reading to make it meaningful. A salad would not be good with just lettuce but other vegetables too!