marcus thomas

Reciprocal Reading Independent Activity

Name:Tupou Peaua___________________________           Date:8 august     2018

Name of text: how did Marcus get into caving ____________________________________________________________

Author: susan paris ________________________________________________________________

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

I know that this is an  story is about an new Zealand caveman called Marcus Thomas who is an new Zealand caveman.

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 predict that marcus thomas was an new zealand caveman and he liked caving when he was young.

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,Chambers,stalactites,flow stone,Laisure lime,Vertical,alpine and tomo.

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

How did marcus thomas get into caving? When he was young. he read a lot of adventure stories. What did caving offer marcus that other sport didn’t? He played football and he enjoyed the team spirit but he didn’t spend all week thinking about football just like he did about caving.

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

The main idea is how did marcus thomas get into caving? The details are: 1.when he was young he was reading a lot of stories about mountaineering. 2.Then one day he saw an documentary about the nettlebed cave near nelson. 3.he would spend hours of reading the maps of the caves.