Programs

The partnership between Friends of Literacy and the Knox County Adult Education Program, Pellissippi State Adult Education, the WAVE Program and the Knox County Sheriff's Detention Facility delivers literacy (reading, writing, spelling, math) and related services to adults in Knox County.

Our goal is to give students the basic tools they need to become better workers, parents, and citizens. Most students initially read and write below a sixth-grade level. Classes are described in more detail below. If you know someone that could benefit from these services please e-mail us or call 865-594-1507.

ADULT LITERACY CLASSES

We provide financial and material support to classes designed to address the academic needs of adults who can't read or who are pursuing a GED. Reading, math, and language arts are taught. Classes are designed to help students make it through the program and eventually obtain a GED.

HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO COMPLETE THE PROGRAM?

It takes an average of 3 months for a student who enters at a seventh or eighth grade level to complete the program.
It take an average of six to nine months for a student who enters at the fifth or sixth grade level to complete the program
Students who enter at the lowest grade levels can take as long as two or three years to learn to read

"Friends of Literacy strives to help volunteers realize that their efforts at helping someone learn to read not only changes the life of that person, but also, in the process and result, it changes the entire community. One person. That's how you start to change the world."

—Brad Meltzer