ABSTRACT
The focus of this chapter is on how individual readers transform authors’ texts into stories through connecting, predicting, inferencing, and integrating information to formulate narrative elements. These processes are evident in the variety of reactive texts that students produce in classroom settings. Examining readers’ reactive texts provides information about how they draw on the author’s text and resources outside the text to construct and interpret stories. Examples of students’ reactive texts at different grade levels illustrate their role in storymaking.
