Figure 1
Image of a crying girl photographed in the USA and writing about poor families in England. (Daily Mirror, April 14, 2014).
Figure 2
Child 1: Cohesion between image and writing in content via the image of a dog and the caption “This is what my great grandmother’s dog looks like”.
Figure 3
Child 2: Cohesion via the image of candy floss and the mentioning of candy floss in writing and via decontextualisation of the motif together with personal writing about a trip to Spain.
Figure 4
Child 3: Cohesion via distant perspective of a boat together with writing about persons, places and the boat trip.
Figure 5
Child 4: Textual cohesion via the resource of colour, but incongruence between the content of the image and the content of writing.
Figure 6
Children 5 (Alvin) and 6 (Joakim): Cohesion via general opinions on motocross bicycles together with a non-naturalistic image of a motocross rider.