Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching

This book provides clear guidelines for identifying key concepts, skills, and routines to teach, designing and delivering effective lessons, and giving students opportunities to practice and master new material.

It includes sample lesson plans, lively examples, and reproducible checklists and teacher worksheets.

The authors, Anita L. Archer and Charles A. Hughes, are leading experts who emphasize the systematic, direct, engaging, and success-oriented nature of explicit instruction.

The book is highly regarded for its practical application in both elementary and secondary content areas and is supported by additional resources such as video clips and instructional DVDs.