Reading Partners
Reading Partners is a volunteer-based program that assists students (PreK-6) in Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools in acquiring reading skills and increasing their enjoyment of literature.

The Need
  • If a child has not learned to read by the end of third grade, he or she is at risk for all future academic achievement, for high school graduation, and for successful employment.
     
  • At least 75% of today’s jobs require at least a ninth-grade reading level


Volunteer Opportunities

  • One-on-One Readers - spend 30 minutes a week providing individual reading assistance
  • Classroom Readers - spend 30 minutes twice a month reading aloud to a classroom of students

Interested in becoming a PENCIL volunteer?

Complete a Volunteer Registration Form and someone will contact you soon!

FALL ORIENTATIONS
To be a Reading Partners volunteer, you must attend an orientation session. All sessions take place from 11:30 - 12:30 at PENCIL Foundation - 421 Great Circle Rd, Suite 100, Nashville, TN 37228. Please contact Ann Johnston to reserve a place! 242-3167 x 232 or ajohnston@pencilfd.org

August sessions have been scheduled! Sign up today for August 24th or 31st.

Or sign up for one of the following:
  • September 7
  • September 14
  • September 21
  • September 28
  • October 6
  • October 13
  • October 20
  • October 27


Program Reports

Funding

  • Ingram Charitable Fund of the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee
  • Comcast Foundation
  • Dollar General Literacy Foundation
  • Bank of America Charitable Trust
  • Belk Foundation
  • Creative Artist Agency Foundation
  • Cal Turner Family Foundation
  • The Memorial Foundation
  • CarMax Foundation
  • Dan and Margaret Maddox Charitable Trust
  • Rogers Group
  • Scarlett Family Foundation
  • BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Community Trust
  • Marsh
  • Wal-Mart Foundation
  • United Way of Metropolitan Nashville