My Grandparent Interview Worksheet
This grandparent interview worksheet gives 2nd Grade students five open questions and roomy writing lines, so a Grandparents Day conversation turns into a keepsake they write themselves.
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Some of the best writing a second grader ever does starts with a question asked out loud. This grandparent interview worksheet turns Grandparents Day into a real interview: the child asks five questions, listens carefully, and writes down what their grandparent actually says. Speaking, listening, and writing all happen in one sitting, and what the student takes home is not a graded page but a record of a conversation that would otherwise have gone unsaid.
This grandparent interview worksheet is a single-page printable PDF with five open questions and two full-width writing lines under each one, set at the handwriting size a seven-year-old needs. Because every response belongs to the child’s own grandparent, the responses are personal by design — there is nothing to mark and nothing to compare. Use this Grandparents Day interview activity the week of Grandparents Day, for a family-history unit, for a writing center, or as a homework page that sends a child home with something to ask.
What’s Included
- Five open interview questions about name, home, games, food, and advice
- Two full-width writing lines under every question
- A Name and Date line so the finished page can be kept or displayed
- Original flat-cartoon artwork of a spinning top, jump rope, paper airplane, and slice of pie
- A print-ready US Letter PDF, one page
Three Reasons This Helps Kids
- Asking a question and recording the reply is the earliest form of research writing, and it teaches a child that a source can be a person.
- Open questions have no wrong reply, so a hesitant writer starts writing instead of worrying about being right.
- Talking with an older relative builds vocabulary, historical sense, and family connection at the same time.
Ideas for Teachers and Parents
- Practice the questions with a partner first so students hear how an interview sounds.
- Send the page home a few days before Grandparents Day, then have students share one reply with the class.
- Invite children to add a sixth question of their own on the back of the page.
- Collect the finished pages into a class book of family stories.
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