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By altering the text, Developing Tray can be adapted to support a wide range of reading activities. The editor program allows the teacher to insert any text and set it up ready for use. 2Simple Software can supply over 50 sample texts and a teaching aid, "Ripe for Development" (extra texts from www.devtray.co.uk), whose example texts are designed to help you use Developing Tray in poetry.
I particularly remember setting up a "mystery" paragraph about the Vikings for my Year 3 class in the mid-eighties on a BBC Micro. The children tackled it in groups of four while the rest of the class were engaged in a circus of related activities. As I issued it as a challenge, trying to unravel "Mr Drage's Mystery Story" quickly became the most popular, yet challenging, task of the lot.
Developing Tray is guaranteed to bring texts to life in your school too. It's one of those programs that works perfectly well with all ages and abilities, and is a must-have software resource for any classroom.
