Section C
Compound Dictation
Most of the colleges of education in the UnitedStates are doing an inadequate job of preparingelementary teachers for teaching children to read, a(36) ______ report by the US National Council onTeacher Quality (NCTQ) concludes.
Teacher-education programmes across the US are(37) ______ to teach the five elements of effective reading instruction that research hasproved are (38)______ -phonemic (音素的,音位的) (39) ______ , phonics (读音法), vocabulary, (40) ______ , and comprehension, according to "What Education Schools Aren't TeachingAbout Reading and What Elementary Teachers Aren't Learning," (41) ______ by NCTQ.
The report's authors (42) ______ information on required reading courses from a (43) ______that was deemed representative of the nation's nearly 1,300 teacher-education programmes.
"(44) ____________________________________________________ ," the report says. Only11 per cent of the colleges reviewed taught all the components, while nearly one-fourth didn'tappear to teach any of them. (45) ________________________________________________________________________ inthe 2000 report of the US National Reading Panel (NRP) and (46) ____________________________________________________________________ .
Many colleges of education have already begun reorganizing their reading courses to includemore of the research on effective instruction.Section C