pretty sure it will if you keep on reading and asking questions here, your method sounds fine don’t worry.
interesting anecdote
this thread is for the absolute beginners book club half a year ago, where many who are explaining grammar points right now started reading for the first time, or were still fairly new to reading
Teasing Master Takagi-san 😝 ・ Volume 1, chapter 1
and here the last volume with posts saying how amazed we were seeing our progress (also notice the greatly reduced post count lol)
Teasing Master Takagi-san 😝 ・ Volume 1, chapter 9
good times