Lee Mountain is a professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Houston. She received her B.A. degree from George Washington University and her Ed.D. from Penn State University. She is the author of Math Connections, Grades 1-3; Early 3 Rs: How to Lead Beginners into Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic; Heritage Supplementary Readers, Grades 1-8; and Strategies for Guiding Content Reading. She is the recipient of several honors and awards including the University of Houston Teaching Excellence Award (2003), and the Freedoms Foundation Award (2000). Lee Mountain is a former public school teacher and reading specialist. Her articles have appeared in the English Journal, The Reading Teacher, and the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy.