Sponsor First Chapter Books

Read together, out loud · Ages 7–9 · taught by Ms. Imani Bell

The bridge between being read to and reading alone. Three short novels, a few pages aloud each week, and a teacher who will not let a hard word go by.

$49 per student · 7 live meetings

Your gift stays with First Chapter Books across every section of it, and is spent only the way you chose: on whole seats or class aid for families with verified need, or on lowering the price for the next seats. If the class is retired and a successor replaces it, your gift follows and we tell you. If sixty days pass with no section of the class meeting or scheduled, whatever is unused moves to the Lyceum’s general aid fund, which pays for need-based scholarships; we tell you that too. A change of instructor changes nothing, because the gift is to the class. The teacher is paid in full for every sponsored seat; the Lyceum keeps its usual 30% only when your gift pays for a seat. Families who receive help are never named to you, the class or the teacher.