We are now 43 lessons into Easyread. So far so good! Josephine is very enthusiastic about doing her Easyread lessons. I have seen MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS IN HER CONFIDENCE and slow steady progress in her decoding skills. In particular she is now able to separate out the sounds in a word. Before she had difficulty identifying the middle sounds in particular. Also she is not guessing nearly as much and when she does she is much more easily redirected back to the text.
So far she still seems mostly disinterested in picking up a book on her own. We are not pushing her at all. Although when we do read some together she seems less stressed then before. Which is awesome.