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Table 11 Sourcing in detailed reading lesson, upper primary

From: Pedagogic register analysis: mapping choices in teaching and learning

 

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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

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