Reading with the Pup.

Today:

The Pup: There’s nothing to DOOOOO!
Me: Read a book.
Pup: Do i HAVE too?
Me: Yes. School starts in 3 weeks, you haven’t been practicing!
Pup: *grumbles*

A little while later – she’s reading If you Send a Mouse to School, and asking me the words she doesn’t know, stumbling over a few, and breezing through others.

Pup: MOM! What does THIS spell? S C I E N C E
Me: Sound it out.
Pup: I DID!
Me: Science.
Pup: Oh. What does THIS spell? T H E N
Me: Oh for the love of…. Then.
Pup: *reads* Then he’ll want to do a science experiment.
Me:…… YOU can’t sound out THEN but you can read EXPERIMENT without a single stumble???
Pup:….yeah, and?

The mind. She BOGGLES. *L* CLEARLY the pup can read much better then she wants anyone to know – when she wants too. Which just cracks me up. Any ideas on how to foster a love of reading in a VERY stubborn 7 year old? My other two discovered it on their own at her age, wanting to stay up late and read a bit before bedtime (they got to stay up a bit later, and I wouldn’t yell) but the pup, she is a different creature alltogether. Any ideas? Hillbilly Mom? I don’t want my pup to become one of your DoNots! Any helpful hints or do I just continue to ride it out until she makes up her own mind?

I know the above comes off as I’m a little short, but she’s halfway through and asking me every other word – words I KNOW she KNOWS – also, she’s asking me the SAME words, and I’m very much on the “sound it out” waggon, and help. I just cut out all the extras for posting sake.

I’m very patient… to a point. Now I want to beat her with the book and hope it sinks in through osmosis. heh. She is so bloody STUBBORN. And she’s read this book MILLIONS OF TIMES over and over. So. Yeah. Suggestions that don’t involve me beating her senseless or slamming my head into a wall – toss em at me.