GUIDED READING LESSON PLAN

FOR TRANSITIONAL/ FLUENT READERS

Level Used in Grade 6-8
Text: Across A Hundred Mountains
Author: Reyna Grande
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Standard: CC.6.R.L.1- Key Ideas and Details: Cite textual evidence to support the analysis of
what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from text.
State Standard; CC.6.R.L.2- Key Ideas and Details: Determine a theme or central idea for a text
and how it is conveyed through particular details- provide a summary of the text.

Strategy Focus: ___Connect

___Sensory Images

___Infer

___Question

___Determine Import

_X__Synthesis

__X_Fiction

___Nonfiction

Specific Focus
I.

Introduction: Today we are going to practice the good reader strategy of Synthesis.
Can any one tell me what synthesis is?
Definition: [creating] original insights, perspectives, and understandings by reflecting
on text(s) and merging elements from text and existing schema or Put pieces together
to see them in a new way.

Debug essential Vocabulary:

campesino (5)

rebozo (5) tu padre no llega (6) mija (8)

madrina(8)

Preview/ predict: From simply looking at the book cover what do you think this story will be
about? What text clues made you think this? What can the title mean or hit to?
II.

During Lesson:
a. Students read silently page 5 and up to page 7.
- Summarize what you have read.
Describe how you visualize the cot in which the Garcia family lives in.Why does
Grande include religion in the text? Why is this significant? Do you think that
religion will play an important role as the novel evolves? Why or why not?

b. Students read silently pages 7-10.

- Summarize what you have read.
Why would Reyna Grande give so much importance to the rain and the river? What
can the rain and river symbolize?

c. Students silently read pages 10-11, 13-14.

- Summarize what you have read, what has happened until now in the story?
Have your parents ever placed on responsibility on you? How does have a
responsibility make you feel? How do you the responsibility placed on Juanita affects
her? Do you think this moment will define or sharp the story why or why not?
d. Students silently read pages 26-27.
- Summarize what you have read
Describe how Juanita takes the news you receives from her father. Why does Grande
allow the reader to see and read Juanitas thoughts?
III.

After Lesson:
Closure: What are your reactions to the text? What topics is Reyna Grande touching?
What reading strategy did we learn today? What is synthesis? Why is this strategy
important? Synthesis allows us to understand the message of the author but also
allows us to better understand the text. Remember in synthesizing we summarizing,
drawing conclusions, and stating the authors message.
Follow up: Read pages 17-21, 26-29. In your journal summarize what has happened
and connect this to the decision ap has taken. Take into consideration how am will
feel and react and how Juanita will see her fathers decision.