Texts for children Flashcards
What texts types for children are?
More a category of writing rather than a text type, texts produced for young people have distinctive features of their own that you may want to keep an eye on.
Key features of texts for children
Allegory
Diction
Visuals
Fable
Didactic
Allegory
Likesymbolism, in children’s stories characters and objects often stand for things greater than themselves.
The Wizard of Oz is a good example of allegory.
Diction
It would be unusual for children’s texts to contain too much difficult vocabulary, although stories and rhymes often usesynonyms.
Visuals
Look out forcolourfulvisuals, vividly drawn people and places.
Fable
A particular type of children’s writing thatanthropomorphisesanimals, who stand in for human characters.
Didactic
Some texts for children are designed to teach a lesson or moral. You can look out fordidactic messagesin children’s texts.
