When students are truly involved in a book, and are getting their own personal experience out of it, then it is very easy for them to experience all the ten dimensions of reading. The students can get lost in a second world, and let that world take over. They take a perspective, they fill in missing gaps, they create a landscape, they expand beyond just the written text of the story. It is very easy for engaged readers to do this to a full extent. However, it was nice to read that Wilhelm was learning, from his engaged readers, how to better help his less engaged readers to be able to reach these dimensions.
A few aspects i am a little confused about in this chapter are when Wilhelm is talking about the differences between boys and girls and how they put themselves in the story and originally get involved. Are his finding really true about the differences between the two genders, and if so, why doesn't he go into more detail about those differences. I guess those are just a few issues i am having a hard time getting my mind around.
I was happy to see that at the end of the chapter Wilhelm is learning possibly more than his students. He is taking away a lot from this study, and i hope to be able to learn more from my students than they can learn from me. it is the only way to grow as a teacher. It was refreshing to see that he has come up with new ideas about what to do for the less engaged readers with role-play and the visual arts which he will talk about in the coming chapters. I would really like to read more about how he engages and gets those less interested students involved.
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