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In an intervention setting, the software and materials outlined above can be used with fewer students at a time and in fewer centers. Since direct instruction is most effective in intervention settings, the Reading Horizons Discovery direct instruction materials will prove to be especially helpful for students with particular needs. A combination of both direct instruction materials and software provides an ideal setting for the station rotation model as intervention teachers are freed up to work one-on-one with individual students while the other students are engaged on the software. Lab Rotation Lab rotation is very similar to station rotation. The key difference is that students move to a computer lab for their online learning portion of instruction. The impetus for using lab rotation versus station rotation is that the lab frees up classroom space for other activities within the rotation model. Teachers have used lab rotation for several years. The main difference in the current use of this model is that teachers incorporate the online learning component into their classroom lessons to create a more streamlined course. (See Figure 3.) FIGURE 3 LAB ROTATION Adapted from Horn and Staker, 2015 10

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