Wide easy reading is essential for all language learners because numbers of new words are added to one’s passive vocabulary, and because the ability to deduce the meaning of unknown words from their contexts is brought in to play, and thereby sharpened. This linguistic ability is a most valuable one for all those who will continue t learn and read languages. Unfortunately, language teachers do not always know that this ability comes into action whenever a learner is reading a text containing unknown or imperfectly known words, and so they tell pupils these meanings, and thus prevent the ability from developing, or they encourage the immediate use of the dictionary, instead of first asking a question that will help the pupil to infer the meaning of the word from the sense of the words accompanying it.