Reciprocal Reading

Reciprocal Reading Independent Activity

Name: Siosaia Liu                    Date: 08/ 08/ 18

Name of text: Marcus Thomas: New Zealand Caveman

Author: Susan Paris

Schema: (Prior knowledge) What do I already know about the topic? I know that…..

I know that Marcus Thomas is a New Zealand caveman and he likes to explore caves wħen he was young.

Predicting: Looking at the pictures, the headings,captions,labels,etc. What do you think you will learn?
Why do you think that? I will learn about…. Because….

I think I will learn how he started exploring and how he got inspired to explore caves because i’m curious about how he liked caving so much that he started a young age.

Clarifying: Write about a challenging “new” word. Is there a part that is confusing? How did you
clarify the confusion? I do not know what….means. I am confused about……

Speleological : The exploration and study of caves. Stalactite: A tapering structure hanging like an icicle from the roof of a cave Chambers: A large room used for a public event.

Questioning: Write one ‘right there’ question. Who, what, when,why. Write one ‘think and search
’ question. Compare/contrast, cause/effect, sequence.

How did he get inspired to explore caves? He got inspired by reading lots adventure stories and a documentary that he watched

Summarising: Write down the ‘main idea’ and at least 3 details from the passage.

The main idea is How did he get into caving The details are: 1.He read a lot of adventure stories and books about mountaineering. 2.He saw a documentary about the Nettlebed cave. That's when he found out he wanted to do caving. 3.He spent hours reading the maps of the caves.