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Do pupils in school learn to read their mother tongue effectively？ Yes and no. Up at the fifth and sixth grade, reading, on the whole is【M1】______ effectively taught and well learned. To that level we find a steady and general improvement, but beyond it the curves flatten out to be a dead level. This is not because a person arrives his natural limitation of efficiency when【M2】______ he reaches the sixth grade, for it has been shown again and again that with special tuition so much older than children, and also adults, can【M3】______ make enormous improvement. Nor does it mean that most sixth-graders read well enough for all practical purpose. A great many pupils do poorly in high school because of sheer inept in getting meaning【M4】______ from the printed page. The average high-school graduate has done a great deal of reading, and if he goes on to college he will do a great deal more, and he is likely to be a poor and incompetent reader.(Note that【M5】______ this holds true for the average student, not the person who is a【M6】______ subject for special medical treatment.)He can follow a simple piece of fiction and enjoy it. But put him up a closely【M7】______ written exposition, an economical stated argument, or a passage【M8】______ required critical consideration, and he is at a loss. It has been shown,【M9】______ for instance, that the average high-school student is amazingly inept at indicating the central thought of a passage, or the levels of emphasis and subordination in an argument or exposition. For all intents and【M10】______ purposes he remains a sixth-grade reader till well along in college.

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