Lee Mountain
Biographic Data
| ID | 6346819 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lee Mountain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lee |
| FAMILY NAME | Mountain |
| SIGNATURE | MOUNTAIN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Houston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Latinx canon in anthologies
More than a quarter of all U.S. students in grades K–12 are Latinx. Examining what Latinx texts are included in classroom literature anthologies is essential to ensuring cultural representativeness of the increasing Latinx student population, especially in states such as Texas and California, whose Hispanic student population is more than 40 percent. These states also represent the largest consumers of educational materials and, therefore, greatl…
Recurrent Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes
Students in a content‐area reading course examined the vocabulary of each of their disciplines, focusing on recurrent roots and affixes. They wanted to become teachers of math, science, English, music, and history; therefore, they needed to learn discipline‐specific morphemes so they could help their future students figure out new words in their content areas. The students: analyzed words in their disciplinary vocabularies, using recurrent roots …
Synonym Success—Thanks to the Thesaurus
After a class of ninth graders discovered the helpfulness of the thesaurus in such synonym activities as Synonym Tic‐Tac‐Toe and Cross‐Synonym Puzzles, they started using the thesaurus to locate “the exactly right word” while drafting compositions. They also enriched their oral vocabularies during these activities by discussing synonyms from the thesaurus and using them in context. Synonym wordplay turned the thesaurus into a popular and effectiv…
Flip-a-Chip to Build Vocabulary
Why use this playful hands-on approach? Because effective vocabulary instruction requires active and positive student participation (Carr & Wixson, 1986), and because personal engagement with a new word can lead to deep processing of the meaning (Dole, Sloan, & Trathen, 1995). But most of all, because I want my students to enjoy vocabulary study so much that they become language enthusiasts, lovers of words, appreciative readers, and word-conscio…
Opinion Polls and Values Clarification
Additional informationNotes on contributorsSharon J. CrawleySharon Crawley is an assistant professor of education at Augusta College in Georgia. She has co-authored the textbook Strategies: Teaching Reading in Content Areas, and has published articles in national, regional, and state journals.Lee Mountain is a professor of education at the University of Houston. Mountain is the author of many professional articles and instructional aids, and is a…
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Opinion Polls and Values Clarification
Additional informationNotes on contributorsSharon J. CrawleySharon Crawley is an assistant professor of education at Augusta College in Georgia. She has co-authored the textbook Strategies: Teaching Reading in Content Areas, and has published articles in national, regional, and state journals.Lee Mountain is a professor of education at the University of Houston. Mountain is the author of many professional articles and instructional aids, and is a…
Flip-a-Chip to Build Vocabulary
Why use this playful hands-on approach? Because effective vocabulary instruction requires active and positive student participation (Carr & Wixson, 1986), and because personal engagement with a new word can lead to deep processing of the meaning (Dole, Sloan, & Trathen, 1995). But most of all, because I want my students to enjoy vocabulary study so much that they become language enthusiasts, lovers of words, appreciative readers, and word-conscio…
Synonym Success—Thanks to the Thesaurus
After a class of ninth graders discovered the helpfulness of the thesaurus in such synonym activities as Synonym Tic‐Tac‐Toe and Cross‐Synonym Puzzles, they started using the thesaurus to locate “the exactly right word” while drafting compositions. They also enriched their oral vocabularies during these activities by discussing synonyms from the thesaurus and using them in context. Synonym wordplay turned the thesaurus into a popular and effectiv…
Recurrent Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes
Students in a content‐area reading course examined the vocabulary of each of their disciplines, focusing on recurrent roots and affixes. They wanted to become teachers of math, science, English, music, and history; therefore, they needed to learn discipline‐specific morphemes so they could help their future students figure out new words in their content areas. The students: analyzed words in their disciplinary vocabularies, using recurrent roots …
The Latinx canon in anthologies
More than a quarter of all U.S. students in grades K–12 are Latinx. Examining what Latinx texts are included in classroom literature anthologies is essential to ensuring cultural representativeness of the increasing Latinx student population, especially in states such as Texas and California, whose Hispanic student population is more than 40 percent. These states also represent the largest consumers of educational materials and, therefore, greatl…
Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Lexicography and Language Studies (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Mathematics education (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Vocabulary (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Class (philosophy (2 works) · History (2 works)