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Introduce The Grannie Annie Family Story Celebration to your students.
(Teachers) Print and copy the Parent Letter and send it home with your students.
Encourage your students to enjoy Grannie Annie stories from previous years.
Have your students interview one another and share the information they learned in oral or written form.
(Teachers) Enlist the participation of your school’s art department in helping students create illustrations for the stories they will write.

Review Guidelines: Review with your students the first bullet point of The Grannie Annie Official Guidelines.
Interview: Have your students interview their family storykeepers. Encourage your students to ask the questions that interest them. Remind them to ask about their family’s “bad” times as well as “good” times.
Review Guidelines: Review the next three bullet points of The Grannie Annie Official Guidelines.
Write: As students complete their interviews, have them begin writing their stories. Encourage all students to write their family stories in their own style and format.

Distribute Entry Forms: Print and distribute The Grannie Annie Official Entry Form to each student. The entry forms must be signed by the student author and/or illustrator, and by the parent/guardian. If you plan for your students’ stories to be submitted electronically, the story and entry form will need to be e-mailed by the parent/guardian.
Revise: Encourage your students to ask for feedback on the content of their stories from classmates, family members, and others, and then to decide which changes, if any, they want to make.
Illustrate: Encourage authors to illustrate their stories. If you are a teacher, share the current drafts of the stories with your school’s art department so that students (authors or others) can create illustrations for the stories.
Edit: Guide your students as they edit their stories for correct usage, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.
Review Guidelines: Review the remaining bullet points of The Grannie Annie Official Guidelines.
Submit: On or before February 14, collect and submit completed entry forms, stories, and illustrations. If you are a teacher submitting your students’ stories yourself, please complete and enclose the The Grannie Annie Teacher Submission Form.
If you included your e-mail address on your students' entry forms, watch for an e-mail with an attached Grannie Annie Storykeeper Bookmark to print for your participating students.

Celebrate: Celebrate your students’ family stories!
Arrange for your students to read their stories in their own and other classrooms.
Help your students get their stories published in your school and community newspapers.
Publish your students’ stories in a classroom or school-wide Grannie Annie book.
Have an authors’ fair and invite the entire school as well as parents and family members.
Order the new volume (and previous volumes) of Grannie Annie for your classroom, school library, family, and friends. Save by ordering ten or more books.
On or after April 1, check The Grannie Annie website to see if your students’ stories have been selected for publication in Grannie Annie.
Watch The Grannie Annie website for the posting of the selected stories.

Celebrate: Celebrate the arrival of the newest volume of Grannie Annie!
Watch your mailbox for award certificates to be presented to Grannie Annie published authors and illustrators, and honorable-mention authors at your school’s awards assembly or other suitable celebratory event.
If you have a newly published or honorable-mention Grannie Annie author or illustrator in your classroom, take photographs of the author or illustrator and her/his book. Post the photographs in the school hallway. Submit them to the school and community newspapers for publication.
Have authors and illustrators sign copies of the Grannie Annie that include their work.

Check The Grannie Annie website for any changes to the guidelines and entry form, and for additions to the teaching resources.
Explore the Resources page of The Grannie Annie website and make plans to include The Grannie Annie throughout your curriculum next year.