Wilhem, Chapter 4

Using drama to attract readers is a great method. Rosenblatt makes a good point when she says "the benefits of literature can emerge only from creative activity on the part of the reader himself." It is also vital to understandthat reading literature is not the reception of meaning, the the readers participation in a transaction with text that produces meaning. It is important to find material that can connect to the unencouraged reader. How can teachers ask students to relate and connect to things that they have not experienced?
Drama is a great method to do this because of the fact that it puts the reader inside the secondary world of a story, experiencing and elaborating upon it from within. It is easy for me to see how research agrees that highly engaged readers do read in a dramatic nature. He mentions good ways to pull in the reluctant reader, one of which is drama, and then creative activities such as visual art. Reluctant readers need to know that reading is more than just decoding. It is key to bring the reading to life in order to ger trye meaning,