Transactional Plan Format
Grade: 3
Month:
Subject: English
Week:
Lesson No.: 6
Lesson: If I Could Be an Astronaut
Competency:
- Develops recitation and pronunciation skills
- Learns rhyming words from the poem
- Develops imagination and creative thinking
- Reads and understands simple poetic lines
Teaching Materials:
- English textbook
- Picture/chart of astronaut and planets
- Blackboard and chalk
- Flashcards of rhyming words
- Globe or solar system chart
Pre-Knowledge Test:
- Have you seen stars in the sky?
- Do you know what an astronaut does?
- Have you heard about planets like Mars and Venus?
- Would you like to travel to space?
Introduction:
Teacher will show the picture of the child imagining space and ask:
- What is the child thinking about?
- What do astronauts do?
- Which planet do you know?
Teacher introduces the poem If I Could Be an Astronaut and explains that it is about imagination and space travel.
Concept Building:
- Teacher recites the poem with proper rhythm and pronunciation.
- Students repeat line by line.
- Difficult words like astronaut, spaceship, stars, weightless are explained.
- Teacher explains the poem in simple language:
- The child dreams of travelling to space.
- He wants to visit a colourful and magical planet.
- He imagines strange and wonderful things in space.
- Teacher discusses imagination and curiosity about space.
- Rhyming words from the poem are identified:
- go – snow
- walk – talk
- find – kind
- hand – land
Consolidation and Reinforcement:
Teacher asks oral questions:
- What does the child want to become?
- Where does he want to go?
- Which planets are mentioned in the poem?
- What special things does the child imagine?
Students recite the poem together with actions.
Practice:
- Recite the poem aloud.
- Write rhyming words from the poem:
- slow – go
- talk – walk
- find – kind
- hand – land
- wish – fish
- know – snow
- Draw and colour a spaceship.
- Write 3 sentences about space.
- Speak a few lines on “My Dream Planet.”