diff --git a/skooma.js b/skooma.js
index e3d8ef3..8fa4f92 100644
--- a/skooma.js
+++ b/skooma.js
@@ -87,3 +87,5 @@ export const handle = fn => event => { event.preventDefault(); return fn(event)
 
 export const html = nameSpacedProxy({nameFilter: name => name.replace(/([a-z])([A-Z])/g, "$1-$2").toLowerCase()})
 export const svg = nameSpacedProxy({xmlns: "http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"})
+
+export const text = (data="") => document.createTextNode(data)
diff --git a/skooma.md b/skooma.md
index ff0ca43..3ad4623 100644
--- a/skooma.md
+++ b/skooma.md
@@ -38,6 +38,13 @@ html.div({foo: "bar"}, {foo: false})
 html.div(dataset: {foo: 1, bar: 2}) // Creates a <div> with the attributes "data-foo" and "data-bar" set to 1 and 2 html.div(style: {color: 'red'}) // Creates a <div> with the "style" attribute set to "color: red"
 ```
 
+```js
+text("Hello, World")
+// Wraps document.createTextNode
+text()
+// Defaults to empty string
+```
+
 Generators can be called with many arguments. Arrays get iterated recursively as
 if they were part of a flat argument list.