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First, newspapers are written for a rather low level of reader and not the best way to learn vocabulary or fine writing skills in my view. That said, if newspaper reading is a goal, how about making it more interactive? Rather than just read the newspaper, have her see if she can RESPOND to something in the paper and get a letter to the editor published? We never suggested this to our son, but when he was 9, he read an article in our local paper about a teen who was pulled over at the same time as some man driving on a license that had been suspended for four years and the dispatcher or whoever ran the license check for the officers switched the information for the two and the teen ended up spending a night in jail due to it while the other guy was let free. Our son said, "This makes no sense as you have to be 16 to get a license in our state and so there is no way the teen could have been on a license suspended for four years already. How did the officer not realize this given that he had the teen's birthday information right on the license?" He decided to write a letter to the editor about this, hoping the police might read it and "get a clue" (not that he noted this in his letter) and not put any other innocent teens through such an ordeal. Now when the editor read the letter, she did call the house in disbelief (our son gave his age in his letter, feeling if he could realize the issue at 9, an officer should be able to have caught the lack of logic in thinking a teen would be driving with a license that was suspended for four years, and I think the teen was also only 17, making it all the more obvious, though I am not positive); she said she didn't believe a child had written it as we live in a very well-educated area (more graduate degrees in the adult population than anywhere else in the USA, I think) and most of her letters to the editor from adults aren't as well written. Once she heard our son was in college at 9 (he had won awards for his verbal and math SAT scores from a talent search he took part in at age 8 and those scores no doubt helped him to get accepted into college at 8), she believed our son wrote it and went ahead and published it.
If she isn't into getting published in a newspaper, maybe she would like to play "editor" and see how many errors (logical, grammatical, spelling, factual, whatever) she can find. You could make a game of it and see who can find the most errors in 30 minutes or something.
You could try putting newspapers in the bathrooms. People often read what is left in bathrooms, especially if they see something marked (highlighted, cut out, whatever).
Have you tried reading articles to her at breakfast or lunch, or discussing them at dinner? Rather than just read them straight through, pause at times where you have feelings on what you are reading yourself and ask questions about her own thoughts on the material. If this isn't just a chore to do on her own but something where people are getting to know one another better and learn from one another, it could be more enjoyable for her. The key is really to have reading be something enjoyable to her such than she *wants* to do it rather than something she is feeling she *has* to do.
You can also ask her to put herself in the parent role and ask, "If you had a child whom you felt would benefit greatly from reading the newspaper, what would you do to try to help your child have an interest in reading the newspaper?"
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