When I taught second grade, I had students write All About Me books to introduce them to writing non-fiction texts and writing biographies. I created this simple template that has a box for the heading, a separate box for the illustration, text lines with adequate space for large second grade handwriting, and page number. This made organizing our final All About Me books MUCH better. This exact same template can work for any non-fiction text: biographies, all about animals, etc. Writing simplifi