The Grannie Annie Family Story Celebration — www.TheGrannieAnnie.org

Related Resources

StoryCorps

The mission of StoryCorps is to honor and celebrate one another's lives through listening. It is an independent nonprofit project that focuses on audio recording of interviews with loved ones, and is open to people of all ages. The StoryCorps website is rich, including sample recordings, a question generator, and many tips that will inspire and support you as you prepare to collect family stories.

The StoryCorps Education Toolkit highlights StoryCorps' annual National Day of Listening. This resource will be of special interest to educators, and includes a suggested list of questions for interviews conducted by students.

Tips for Teaching Writing . . . and for Writing Itself

Grannie Annie Co-Director Fran Hamilton believes that understanding the writing process provides the key to successful writing — and to successful writing instruction. In this article she describes how to break the writing process into manageable parts and focus on one step at a time. This approach can be helpful in writing Grannie Annie stories — or anything else.

Author Patricia Polacco

Award-winning author Patricia Polacco has turned many of her family stories into beautiful picture books. Read what she has to say about the importance of family stories and intergenerational relationships, enjoy her books, and get ideas for how you might develop and share your own stories.