Pronunciation+Guides+minilesson


 * Accuracy Mini-Lesson: Pronunciation Guides**

Using a science textbook for example, but really any textbook would also be applicable; to help students read vocabulary term more accurately. This lesson is for students who might not be familiar with or understand the purpose and use of pronunciation guides. Students might be mispronouncing words or spelling words incorrectly. These students also may get frustrated with the text and/or lose meaning because of the more difficult words. These are all signs that the students need to learn or review how to use pronunciation guides when they are available.
 * Connection:**

The main point of teaching this to students is to show how and why to use pronunciation guides while reading. While reading, students may come to a long and hard to read word and might just pass by it, one strategy to reading tricky words is to use a pronunciation guide.
 * Teaching Point:**

For this minilesson, the teachers will be using a 7th grade science textbook as the model. Using a powerpoint to show the passage, teachers will model what to do when using pronunciation guides. Stop, read the guides as they sound, and slowly.
 * Model/Teach:**

Passage Used to Model: **Proteins in Action** “Proteins have many different functions. Some proteins form structures that are easy to see. Other proteins are very small and help cells do their jobs. Inside red blood cells, the protein hemoglobin (HEE moh GLOH bin) binds two oxygen to deliver and release oxygen throughout the body…Other proteins, called enzymes (EN ZIEMZ), start or speed up chemical reactions in cells.”

Holt, Reinhart, & Winston. Holt science and technology: Life science. New York, NY: A Harcourt Education Company.

Students will actively participate in re-reading the model paragraph that the teachers previously modeled. When the class approaches a word with a pronunciation guide, they will first determine if they know the word without the guide, then double check if they were correct or to figure out the word initially. This will be done out loud so the students can all hear the thinking process of the student using the pronunciation guide. The teachers will stress the importance of using the pronunciation guides to make the content valid to the students. The teachers will ask the students for reasons as to why pronunciation guides are important.
 * Active Engagements:**

Students (our class of adults), working in pairs, will read another passage aloud to their partner, for this first read, there will be no pronunciation guides for students to use. Students might feel frustration or even be tempted to skip over the words. We choose to start with this example so that as teachers, we might know how it feels to be frustrated by words and to show how pronunciation guides can really help.
 * Link (send off activity):**

After the class reads the hard passage, we will show the same passage but this time with pronunciation guides next to the harder vocabulary on the powerpoint. After allowing students to re-read the passage, we will again have a discussion about how or why the pronunciation guides help readers. We will be looking for some different answers now that the class has had recent experience with a more difficult passage.

Passage Without Pronunciation Guides for Link: Commercial food products will often have partially hydrogenated vegetable oil as one of the ingredients. Naturally occurring fatty acids such as vegetable oil are long carbon chain carboxylic acids. They can be hydrogenated to convert the alkyl chain into to an aliphatic R group. The fatty acids can be found as either the carboxylic acid or as part of a fatty acid triglyceride as shown below.

The fatty acid is isolated when the fatty acid triglyceride is hydrolyzed. Three acids will be formed from every fatty acid triglyceride. The R group can be any alkyl group. In naturally occurring fatty acids, the R will have an odd number of carbons. Counting the acid carbon, natural fatty acids have an even number of carbons. This is attributed to fatty acid synthesis occurring two carbons at a time by //in vivo// mechanisms. In the table below are some common fatty acids that are naturally found in animals.

Passage With Pronunciation Guides for Link: Commercial food products will often have partially **hydrogenated ([hahy-druh-juh-neyt-ed)** vegetable oil as one of the ingredients. Naturally occurring fatty acids such as vegetable oil are long carbon chain **carboxylic (kahr-bok-sil-ic)** acids. They can be hydrogenated to convert the alkyl chain into to an **aliphatic (al-uh-fat-ik)** R group. The fatty acids can be found as either the carboxylic acid or as part of a fatty acid **triglyceride (trahy-glis-uh-rahyd**) as shown below.

The fatty acid is isolated when the fatty acid triglyceride is **hydrolyzed (hahy-druh-lahyz-d).** Three acids will be formed from every fatty acid triglyceride. The R group can be any alkyl group. In naturally occurring fatty acids, the R will have an odd number of carbons. Counting the acid carbon, natural fatty acids have an even number of carbons. This is attributed to fatty acid synthesis occurring two carbons at a time by //in vivo// mechanisms. In the table below are some common fatty acids that are naturally found in animals.

To assess the students, you can have them do a Think.Pair.Share. on how to read the pronunciation guides. Then once they have shared with the class, there can be a discussion again on the benefits of using the guides. Lastly, have them complete a ticket out the door with a fact about pronunciation guides that they didn't know before that class.
 * Assessment:**