A word to describe a changing amount of segments of text for reading?

Question

If I have a daily routine of reading:

• x pages of a book, or x paragraphs, or x sentences, etc.
• Where the x object may change according to the book type (for example, if I read a poetry book, I'll read x poems; or if I read a foreign language book, I'll read x sentences)

What word should I use to generally describe the x items?

I'd like to use that word with counting, for example:

Every day at 20:00, I read my daily 5 <items>

another example:

I was tired and only read 2 out of my 7 <items> today, so tomorrow I'll read 12 <items>

I know I can just replace <items> with the objects I'm reading (pages/paragraphs/sentences), but I wonder if there's a general word for them?

Alternatives I have in mind:

1. segments
2. blocks
3. spreads

In my native language, I'd actually use 2 words that would translate to "reading sections", or "reading segments". Intuitively, that doesn't sound like a good English word choice.

Answer 1

There isn't really a specific word in English. But you can use something like "reading segment". It's not particularly idiomatic, so you'd probably need to define the term:

I try to read five segments each evening, for example five poems, or five paragraphs from an English novel. But last night I was tired, and only completed two reading segments. So tonight I'll aim for twelve.

Once defined you can use the term, but in most cases using a specific word, like "poem" would be better.

Answer 2

You can use "assignment", where each unit of reading is an assignment. So you can say, " every day at 20:00, I read my daily 5 reading assignments", or "I do my 5 daily reading assignments".