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Understanding is not comprehending and ‘comprehension skills’ are a myth

Every time I prepare to teach a new text, I find myself thinking about, and exploring, the differences and the intersection of understanding and comprehension. The vocabulary knowledge required to access the text, the knowledge required to understand the text …

Textwall

This afternoon I had a very positive conversation with Lilian Soon from textwall.co.uk. In a nutshell textwall.co.uk it’s a response system where responders text, email, webpost their responses. Think Twitterfall for texting. Lilian gave me access to a sandbox account …