Originally Posted by CCN
I finally had to walk her through it word by word: "this word! GO! print it! Excellent! Next word! Just do it! Awesome! Next word!" etc etc etc.

LOL! I had an extremely similar situation last year, when my DD was 8 and in 4th grade. I think for us, it was a "write one sentence using each spelling word" task. I was amazed that yelling, "Your word is [word]. Write!" actually worked as a motivating technique.