A2: Reading

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The Detroit News reports that the Michigan Reads! literacy program is using sports to motivate summer reading. Incentives for kids who read 10 books by Aug. 22 include tickets to a Tigers game or an all-day pass to HockeyFest. Ann Arbor sixth-grader Cooper Vettorello was honored at a Piston’s game, having read his tenth book, which coincided with the milestone 10,000th book of the program. UM education professor Elizabeth Birr Moje says of the program, “It would be nice if all kids, all people, were intrinsically motivated to read, and we didn’t have to provide some sort of incentive, but that’s not realistic.” [Source]