District One has picked the reading programs it wants. You can look at them first, until Dec. 8.

A reading curriculum is more than the worksheet that comes home in a backpack. It's the collection of stories, lessons and teaching materials behind it. If you want to see what District One is considering for those lessons, this is your opening.

Yuma School District One has opened public review of its proposed kindergarten-through-eighth-grade English language arts programs through Dec. 8, 2026. Its Oct. 15 announcement invites staff, students, families and other community members to review the materials and offer feedback.

The adoption committees recommend:

• Kindergarten through fifth grade: HMH Into Reading.
• Sixth through eighth grade: Savvas myPerspectives.

The materials are available at Mary Elizabeth Post, 400 W. 5th St. Call (928) 502-4394 to schedule a visit.

What the committees picked

The district says the elementary recommendation reflects its review of instructional materials, student learning experiences, teacher support and usability, plus classroom teachers' feedback. It describes the middle-school program's reading selections and instructional resources as reasons for that recommendation.

Those are the district's reasons. They aren't an independent rating of either program.

A separate district notice, updated Sept. 23, lists Phase II committee meetings for elementary and middle-school materials in September and October at the same Fifth Street address. It describes an adoption process approved by the board. Approval of a process is different from final adoption of a particular program.

Questions to take with you

The public-review announcement and the Phase II notice leave some useful questions unanswered. They don't state a purchase price, a final adoption vote date, which existing program would be replaced, or exactly how review comments will be collected and weighed.

That doesn't establish that the district has never discussed those matters elsewhere. It means these two notices don't answer them. They're reasonable questions to ask when you make the appointment.

You don't have to be a reading specialist to make the visit useful. Read a few selections for your child's grade. Look at an assignment and the teacher materials that go with it. Ask how the lessons support a student who needs extra help, and whether there is a way to review in Spanish if that's the language your family reads at home.

The point is to get beyond a publisher's name and see what children would actually use. The review window closes Dec. 8.