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Peer reviewedOtto, Wayne – Journal of Reading, 1993
Discusses comments about and responses to an article on semiotics by Donald J. Cunningham in the June 1992 issue of the "Educational Psychology Review." Discusses the semiotic method of juxtaposition, juxtaposing a menace being posed to reading teachers with the menace experienced in W. W. Jacobs' classic ghost story "The Monkey's Paw." (SR)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction
Download full textOtto, Wayne – 1980
Traditionally, reading educators' alternatives for improving students' reading comprehension have been to (a) modify the text, (b) augment the text with aids, or (c) modify the students' reading behavior. The first involves limiting the average number of words per sentence and substituting short, easy words and structures. Results with this…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction
Otto, Wayne – 1971
This paper first presents the rationale for an eclectic approach to remedial teaching and then considers a teacher training program designed to encourage eclecticism. The wide range of pupil characteristics, teacher attributes, and instructional approaches and the lack of any universal cure for reading problems necessitates an eclectic approach in…
Descriptors: Individualized Reading, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction, Remedial Programs
Otto, Wayne – 1974
This paper discusses some of the issues in early reading instruction to be presented at Institute X. The issues discussed include sight word lists for beginning readers, choosing instructional methods in reading that complement individuals' learning styles, a pragmatic approach to teaching reading comprehension, literal reading comprehension, the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Early Reading, Reading, Reading Comprehension
Smith, Richard J; Otto, Wayne – J Reading, 1969
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Inservice Teacher Education, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction
Otto, Wayne; And Others – 1981
The procedures described in this report are designed to help students both develop and apply effective behaviors for understanding expository text by means of gloss--a technique that involves the use of marginal notes and other intratext notations to direct readers' attention to places in the text where the application of specific skills and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Prior Learning, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedOtto, Wayne – Journal of Reading, 1988
Presents a satirical view of the current literature on reading. Suggests that reading therapy inundates the student with theoretical constructs. (ARH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Difficulties
Otto, Wayne; Smith, Richard J. – 1970
Part 1 of a book for administrators and teachers is devoted to an overview of the school reading program: its focus and scope, its component skills and their development, and its relationship to the other language arts. The emphasis is not on the specifics of instruction but on providing a framework within which efficient reading instruction can…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Community Support, Inservice Teacher Education, Program Administration
