Year 1 English Reading Aloud Satisfactory2

Key
For the purpose of this transcript, the following editorial marks have been applied.
(.) / Micro pause, a notable pause but of no significant length
(0.2) / Timed pause, a pause long enough to time
- / segmenting/blending
( ) / The words spoken here were too unclear to transcribe
___ / Raise in volume or emphasis
CAPITALS / Words were read/said loudly or shouted
[ ] / Provides further/contextual information
 / Rise in intonation

[Symbol descriptions adapted from: University of Leicester. (n.d.). What is the Jefferson transcription system? Retrieved July, 2017, from

Summarised by the University of Leicester from:

Jefferson, G. (2004). Glossary of transcript symbols with an introduction. In G. H. Lerner (Ed.), Conversation analysis: Studies from the first generation (pp. 13–31). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Hepburn, A., & Bolden, G. B. (2013). Transcription. In J. Sidnell & T. Stivers, T. (Eds), Blackwell handbook of conversation analysis (pp. 57–76). Oxford, UK: Blackwell.]

Teacher 1: Can you do a prediction about what you think this story might be about?

Student 1: Ahh (0.6) The (.) streets are flooding.

Teacher 1: Ok. Anything else?

Student 1: (0.4)Ahh (0.2) that the house is gonna get flooded by water.

Student 1: Ma-ggie(.), Ma-ggie looked out the window. It had been raining all day. Now, water was all (.) around her house. ‘I can’t (.) stay in my house’, she said. [Overlapping speech. Teacher 1: Good job. Keep going] Ma-ggie went outside. ‘I will go to (.) that house over the ra-(.)river’, she said. It is up on a hill. Ma-ggie went (.) under the water and up (.) again. ‘Help!’ she shouted. She (0.7) [attempts to sound out word] wav-ed (0.2)

Teacher 1: waved

Student 1: waved her h- (0.4) hand about and she shouted again.

[Transcript of student reading from: Eggleton, J. (2009). Cow to the rescue. Gosford, NSW: Scholastic Australia.]

Teacher: Why did Maggie get on the log?

Student: Because she wants, because she wanted to get across the river.

Teacher 1: What do you think might have happened to Maggie if the cow hadn’t rescued her?

Student 1: She would drowned.

Teacher 1: Who were the characters?

Student 1: The cow and the Maggie.

Teacher 1: And what can you tell me about them?

Student 1: One is a girl, one (.) I don’t know what it is.

Teacher 1: Anything else?

Student 1: Ahh (0.5) no.

Teacher 1: Where did the story take place?

Student 1: At the house and in the river.

Teacher 1: What was the problem in the story?

Student 1: That Ma-ggie was drowned-ing.

Teacher 1: And how did it get solved?

Student 1: By the cow saving her.

Teacher 1: Do you think it was a sensible idea for Maggie to get on the log?

Student 1: (.) Not so much.

Teacher 1: Tell me why.

Student 1: Because there’s rough waters and then they can tip over.

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