Restore this text by completing the second half of the partially deleted words, just as you do with texts using VEA's Skill-Builder tool.  This will help you improve your language skills at different levels.   Reading is one way that learners gain lexical knowledge. Evidence in two areas supports this assum[Fill in the blank], . The first is the enor[Fill in the blank], of the vocabulary-learning ta[Fill in the blank], and the appa[Fill in the blank], efficiency and speed with which it is accomp[Fill in the blank], . It is esti[Fill in the blank], that L1 vocab[Fill in the blank], doubles in size between the third and seventh gra[Fill in the blank], and that school children typically gain 1,000–3,000 words a year. Such exte[Fill in the blank], gains suggest that a consid[Fill in the blank], amount of word learning takes place incide[Fill in the blank], through expo[Fill in the blank], to new words in meaningful cont[Fill in the blank], . The second indic[Fill in the blank], of indi[Fill in the blank], learning comes from rese[Fill in the blank], showing vocab[Fill in the blank], gains from read[Fill in the blank], in L1 students, L2 students of Eng[Fill in the blank], in a foreign language con[Fill in the blank], , adult ESL students, and child ESL students.