Pedagogic register analysis: mapping choices in teaching and learning

Functional Linguistics

Table 11 Sourcing in detailed reading lesson, upper primary

		sp	ad	Role	Sourcing	Source	Interact	Act
1	Now the next sentence tells us that some people were awake, not all.	T	SS	K1	Locate	Text	Invite	anticipation
2	Remember they said, this was happening about 2 in the morning?				Remind	Text	Invite	Knowledge
3	So most people would be asleep.				Recast	Text	Model	Reasoning
4	But some people were awake,				Rephrase	Text	Impart	Knowledge
	and they heard a sound that was a bit like a storm coming our way.
5	OK?			tr			Check	Reception
6	And as the earthquake got closer, the ground started to shake.			K1	Rephrase	Text
7	So that’s what will be talked about in this next sentence.				Locate	Text	Invite	Anticipation
8	So if we have a look at that				Locate	Text	Invite	Attention
	it says, ‘Those people who were awake heard a sound like distant thunder, and as the first ripples of the earthquake sped towards the city the ground beneath their feet started to shake.’				Read	Text