welcome to kbumreading Where READING IS THINKING!!               
    Keeping this site updated is one of my biggest challenges as those of you
who know me understand. Thank you for your patience. Please do come in and
see if you can find some new literacy tools that you can use with your students.
Also...a special hello to all those great educators I meet in my travels. A special
recognition for all  those educators in the great state of Maryland where I have
spent a lot of time in recent months! In the near future I will be traveling back
there to spend time with Maryland City Elementary and others. I am also looking
forward to returning to New Mexico and in traveling to Iowa in a few months.
Special Upcoming Dates: February 9-  Maryland -Anne Arundel County
Reading Council * March 8- WRESA EOG Make It Take It * 2010 IRA-
Chicago April 25-29 * April 8-9 Iowa State Reading Conference *
Albuquerque- February 18- LOOKING FORWARD to Seeing You There!!!!
                 
   Some of the "treasures" you can find on this site are:
  • COMPREHENSION STRATEGIES Tools including THINK CLOUDS...also the mini version: Baby
    Mini Think Clouds to share with students in their Literacy Tool Kits.
  • Revised FICTION AND NONFICTION WALKS- for "Make It - Take It"
  • EOG Test Prep Tools are under the READING and WRITING link.
  • K-2 Literacy pictures and ideas
  • Fix-Up strategies...and more
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN SCHEDULING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT  Please go to "Contact Us" and click in
OR send an email to: kbumreading@yahoo.com for information on availability, fees, and specific workshop topics offered to individual schools,
school districts, regional education alliances, conferences, and private institutions. Our speciality is focused on literacy, school improvement,
and Best Instructional Practices that Work in grades Pre-K through 12th Grade. We work with individual schools, school districts, and regional
associations. We also travel across the United States when needed and possible. We can specialize our professional development to suit your
specific needs! Our biggest focus is that READING IS THINKING..WRITING IS THINKING!! I will look forward to working with you in the future!!!

                           McGraw Hill Education Group - "TREASURES"
In addition to conducting professional development and working with School Improvement in
classrooms in with schools across North Carolina, I also proudly serve as a NATIONAL
READING CONSULTANT / SPEAKER and Contributing Author on the AUTHOR TEAM for the
Reading Program: TREASURES - Please check out the site www.mhschool.com
to see why it is the #1 Top Selling Reading Program in the country. Congratulations to
those districts across the country who have adopted Treasures!!! Let me know who you are!
NOTE: Special Note to North Carolina Teachers... (Especially MONTGOMERY COUNTY
SCHOOLS, McDOWELL COUNTY SCHOOLS, ASHEBORO CITY SCHOOLS, South Graham
Elementary, and all others that I have the honor to work with directly....Please do not hesitate
to contact me with questions and/or requests when you visit this site. Please be patient with
me as my travels and work schedules are crazy...please know I will respond as quickly as
possible! Thanks for your patience!
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Kathy Bumgardner
Strategies Unlimited, Inc.
kbumreading@yahoo.com
Updated JANUARY 2010