 Hi, my name is Rebecca Sampson, and today I have the wonderful opportunity of taking over the Dear Dis is YouTube channel. Today, we are going to be talking about engaging your young learners in CBC word blending through word racing. So get ready, it's time to live, love, learn. I have been a primary teacher for seven years. I've had the opportunity to teach first grade kindergarten and second grade summer school. As I was teaching, I noticed that some of my struggling readers were really having a hard time blending their CBC words. Black words on a white page. What can be more entertaining and engaging than that? A whole lot. I call this game word racing. The concept is pretty simple. I have a race track with the CBC word real or not real. If my students are in person, I encourage them to go take a real race car or not a real race car, but a toy race car and go sound by sound slowly through the word. Once they get to the finish line, they drive all the way back to start and they try to race through the words. Now, some of my struggling readers, they get nervous by the sound of racing. Race through the word, I have to read it super quick. Well, to take some of that pressure off for those kids, I do change the name from word racing to just race car blending. Whatever fits the needs of your students, definitely do that. I love and prefer this resource in person. But because of the pandemic, many of us are teaching from home. We're virtual teachers, just like me. So you know I've got you covered. To access all of the files, you're going to type in the bit.ly link that is located in the description, or you can click on it there. Once it loads, you will have access to the printable version, which is here in the PDF. You can also access your pictures for personal use. You can use these pictures to upload to either Jamboard, Google Slides, or any other virtual platform that you may be using. Once you're here, you can download your pictures. You can right click and click download. Once you've downloaded the pictures, you can then open up a new Google Jamboard to put the race tracks with the CBC words in the background. You're going to go to set background. And then what I like to do is I like to go ahead and have the folder open with my words because it only lets me do one word at a time. So I just drag and drop the word and I'll go over set background and same thing. Drag and drop the word. Do one more just so that you can see it one more time. Go over set background, picture, and drag and drop. Alright, once my pictures are in there, I can go and find my race car. So once you have your race car downloaded, you can go to add image. And then same thing you're going to drag and drop your race car. And there we have our race car ready to go. And a shortcut, if you are using your Dell laptop or your Windows laptop, you can click control C for copy and control V to paste. So there you have your word racing on Jamboard. Well, there you have it. A quick, fun, engaging way to encourage your students to blend through those CBC words. For more resources, teaching tips, and freebies, head over to Instagram and search for Live, Love, Learn in Primary. I hope to see you there. Oh, and don't forget to give this video a thumbs up and subscribe to the Dear Dessus YouTube channel. Thanks for watching.