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Table 19 Detailed reading lesson continued

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

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Now we’ve got there that the sound was like distant thunder.

K1

T

SS

Prepare

Attribute

Rephrase

Text

Invite

Perception

Can anyone tell me what they call that,

just before we move on,

dK1

  

Focus

Metalg

Enquire

Learner

Invite

Display

when something is said to be like something else?

     

Remind

Lesson

  

[hands up]

A1

SS

     

Invite

Evaluation

[points to student]

A2

T

S5

    

Permit

Display

A simile?

K2

S5

 

Propose

Metalg

Recall

Learner

Display

Knowledge

A simile. Right fantastic,

K1

T

S5

Evaluate

Affirm

  

Praise

Knowledge

So they’re saying the sound is like thunder.

K1

 

SS

Elaborate

Metalg

Rephrase

Text

Invite

Conception

It isn’t the thunder, but it’s like thunder.

     

Recast

Text

Present

Knowledge

OK?

tr

      

Check

Conception

So we’ve talked about similes before.

K1f

    

Remind

Lesson

Invite

Knowledge