Original PromptText and texts are generic terms referring to all forms of oral, written, visual, and digital communication:
Oral texts include speeches, poems, plays, and oral stories.
Written texts include novels, articles, and short stories.
Visual texts include posters, photographs, and other images.
Digital texts include electronic forms of all the above.
Oral, written, and visual elements can be combined (e.g., in dramatic presentations, graphic novels, films, web pages, advertisements).
This learning resource explores the four main types of texts: Oral, Written, Visual, and Digital. Each text type is accompanied by examples, such as speeches for oral texts, novels for written texts, posters for visual texts, and websites for digital texts. The document encourages students to match examples to their corresponding text types and analyze how combined texts, like video games and graphic novels, convey meaning through the interaction of various text types. Students are also prompted to compare and contrast different text types using a Venn diagram and to create their own projects that integrate multiple text types, culminating in a reflection on the effectiveness of each text type in communication.