Hi, hello and welcome from the School Stickers team! December is the month of a very important literary icons birthday, Jane Austen was born on December 16th in Hampshire. Today’s blog brings you some great teaching ideas including facts and fun lesson features as well as some of our best literacy classroom rewards.
Wise words from the author’s novels
- “There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”
- “It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
- “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
- “Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
- “Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.”
Who was Jane Austen Exactly?
- She was the last of 7 children
- Austen was educated by her father who ran a school for boys inside their family home.
- The entire family, including her older, oxford educated brothers were literary although Austen was the only one to become a published novelist.
- Jane Austen loved to read – Her father had a good sized library from which she frequently borrowed books. And when she and her family were visiting in big cities like London or Bath she’d often borrow from lending libraries there.
- Her first book was published when she was 36 years old
Classroom Stickers
Classroom ideas
Here’s a few simple ideas for creating a bit of awareness and discussion in your classroom for pupils of all ages and abilities.
- Ask children to list as many Jane Austen novels as they can think of as a class
- Find and print off a wordsearch as a fun lesson starter. Theres one here.
- You’ll find a Jane Austen Colouring page over on activityvillage.co.uk. It’s perfect for younger kids to draw up what they think she might have looked like.
- After running through Jane Austen’s facts and history with your class ask them to fill in a worksheet like this one to see how much information they’ve retained.
Classroom Certificates
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