Learning to read

My six year old is not an independent reader. He reads a few pages, grudgingly, and wants to quit. Has he been told too often he is smart, which this New York Times article suggests might be the culprit: http://nymag.com/news/features/27840/index.html Or is there a factor the NYT doesn't mention--perhaps I, having fixed on the idea that he is smart, expect him to just read for crying out loud.

Last night I read him Discover Magazine's top 100 science stories of the year; he read to me One Fish Two Fish.