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by germinalphrase 3053 days ago
Once you get past phonetics, symbol/sound relationships - the only metric that really matters for basic literacy is # of words read.

Should it be challenging? Yea, sure - but ten short books or two long ones doesn't matter a bit. They just need to read more.

Source: I'm a k12 English teacher. The data that makes it into my hands almost always comes back to this point.