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Written by: Mary Kate Bolinder

Are you using small group instruction in your classroom? If so, then you'll agree - this is where the magic happens! Students get a targeted lesson to improve their skills in a small, supportive, group setting. But one of the biggest struggles teachers face with small group instruction is organization. With so many essential tools to teach targeted intervention lessons, it can be easy to get disorganized fast! What activity or skill are they working on today? Don't waste that crucial time with students sorting through papers, centers, and hands-on materials. Take a look at some of the top tools teachers use to keep their small groups organized!

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Binders & Folders for the Win!

It almost seems too simple to mention - but folders save the day for small group organization!

For teachers:

Organize your small group binder with the easy printouts found in the Literacy Kit! Each small group has its own folder. At the start of each week, print out all the papers and materials you will need each day for each group, and place them in the matching folder. You can find guidance on exactly what you need to plan with our helpful post about What To Do During Literacy Interventions. When it's time to call small groups together, you have everything you need in one spot!

For students:

Each student has their own small group folder. This is great for storing progress notes, goal setting sheets, and a safe spot for any leveled readers or worksheets the student needs to review.

Save time (and paper) when you use dry erase pockets. Perfect for word work, fluency assessment, handwriting, and so much more! Don't forget to have plenty of dry erase markers and erasers on hand at your small group station.

Hands-On Activity Organizers

Need hands-on literacy intervention ideas for small group instruction? Look no further than our Literacy Toolkit. These tactile activities are sure to keep students engaged, and have fun while learning important phonological skills! But how do we keep all the tiny activity parts in place without going bonkers?!

That's where these handy activity organizers come in! The perfect size for small hands - these cases hold everything you need for hands-on literacy interventions, and fit in a stackable storage box. Bonus for color coordination! Check out these helpful number stickers for keeping the activities organized.

One of the best parts of creating and storing the hands-on activities in a convenient case is the flexibility to take the activity anywhere! Once students have been introduced to a hands-on activity in a small group session, they can take the activity to their seat for independent practice. Or the activity can be used as part of a group center! There are so many options for creative flexibility with these kits.

Wondering what activities to put in these boxes? Take a look at this video to see all the amazing activities included in the Small Group and Intervention Literacy Kit!

Can you imagine your students' excitement when they find out they get to use Pop-Its, Play-Doh, beads, and Duplo? This pack of activities makes improving phonological skills a joy, not a chore. Simply print, cut, and place the matching manipulatives in the box. Your intervention activity is ready to go!

Pop-Its! Blocks! Links! Cars! Play-Doh! Beads!

And SO MUCH MORE! Find all the materials you need to create the awesome activities found in the Small Group and Intervention Literacy Kit in our Amazon shop!

No matter how many students or groups you have, we have the tools for keeping your small groups flexible, organized, and flawless! Our Small Group and Intervention Literacy Toolkit features dozens of resources to create dynamic and engaging small group lessons. The planning materials allow you to assess students, create plans, and get organized. The instructional activities allow you to teach small groups effortlessly, effectively, and in engaging ways!

Which activity are you most excited to try with your students? Tell us in the comments below!

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Written by: Mary Kate Bolinder Are you using small group instruction in your classroom? If so, then you'll agree - this is where the magic happens! Students get a targeted lesson to improve their skills in a small, supportive, group setting. But one of the biggest struggles teachers face with small group instruction is organization.

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Last week, I blogged about setting up your classroom library. This was so much fun for me because that's my favorite area in a classroom. This is the 2nd edition of the Setting Up series. This week's post focuses on nooks for small group in the classroom! Small group is a staple in most classrooms, but sometimes, they can be tough to keep up with or keep organized. I hope to bring you some ideas and inspiration for your small group nook!

When setting up and teaching small group, there are three key points.

Student ENVIRONMENT

Teacher DATA TRACKING

Material ORGANIZATION

1. Focus on Organization when Setting Up Small Group in the Classroom

There's paperwork, books, pencils, pens, highlighters, witch fingers, whiteboards, expo markers, sentence strips, and more! Small group area has a LOT that goes with it. And organizing it isn't always easy. Here are a few ideas that I found that may help you out!

Teaching in High Heels
The guided reading bucket is a huge lifesaver because you can carry it with you wherever you go. I love this idea from Teaching in High Heels where she keeps them all in one place.

Miss DeCarbo
Color coordinate your baskets to help keep your groups together.

Elementary Nest
Back to color-coding. This is from my blog post, where I talk about each of my groups being a different color and how I kept their folders and paperwork in color-coordinated drawers.

Ms. Jump's Class
Love the idea of velcro so that you can move kiddos around if needed.

Fabulous in First
This set up is so fun and leaves minimal distractions for small group in the classroom.
Books, Bunting, and Bainbridge
2. Focusing on Student Environment

The student environment is what I consider to be what the kiddos see when they sit at the table with you. It's the colors, the chairs, the bulletin boards, even the placemats in front of them. Basically, this key point of small group is another way of saying "pretty spaces." Here are a few pretty pics that I found from other bloggers and myself that may inspire some fun decorating of your small group in the classroom!
Miss DeCarbo
Mrs. Wills Kindergarten
This is just perfect. Tranquil and soothing environments will help keep kiddos calm!

First Grade Fingerprints
These are dry erase circles! They stick to the table. You need these for small group in the classroom.

KFUNdamentals
I love this idea to have each kiddo have their own work areas.

3. Focusing on Teacher Data Tracking

Data, data, data! Keeping up with all the paperwork is a vital part of small group. I found a few pins and blogs that talked about wonderful ways to track your data and keep you ahead!

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The Thinker Builder
Holy Data, Batman! This blog post is amazing at looking at student data and placing it in the perfect group!
First Grade Garden
All of these ideas and MORE are found on this SMALL GROUP PINTEREST BOARD. Come on over to find even more ideas.

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Are you looking for some new classroom management ideas? Look no further, this post is packed with creative ideas that you can try in your class this year. There are ideas for keeping kids engaged with online learning, organizing your daily routines, helping students manage emotions, setting classroom expectations and ideas to motivate positive behavior with rewards.

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Classroom Management Ideas for Daily Routines

Don't you love when you find a new idea that makes your daily routine in your classroom a little more organized and efficient? Well, I've found some ideas for you that do just that.

This Includes a way to eliminate pencil sharpening during class time, an idea to have a reference for everything you need with you at all times plus, more ideas to streamline your day.

Attention Getting Strategy

WIRELESS DOORBELL | FIND IT HERE

Have you tried a wireless doorbell in your class yet? You can use this tool to avoid yelling during class or organize class activities. This one comes with five different transmitters which you can use for different attention getters.

For example, one could be voices off, another could be freeze, line up, clean up, or rotate to a new station. There are 50 different chimes that you can use.

Doorbell on a Lanyard

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Taylor, a 4th grade teacher from Nashville, puts her doorbell on the back of her lanyard so that its always with her to save her voice from trying to talk over the students.

Daily Check-In

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Here's a fun way to have your students check in every morning. They find their name and put it in the connect four game. Love this idea from You Clever Monkey!

You can also change the "games pieces" to ask a question and have them put their answer in the game.

Activity Reminders

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This teacher from Australia uses these pretty cards to remind the kids of what activity they should be working on.

I'm Done Choice Board

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Here's a smart way to keep fast finishers busy while you're helping kids that are still working on their assignment. You can create an I'm done choice board and encourage students to silently choose another activity to work on while they wait for their classmates to finish.

Independent Crate System

IMAGE SOURCE | TALESFROMAVERYBUSYTEACHER

Take a cue from this self-proclaimed busy teacher and let your kids take control. Set up milk crates with extra copies of assignment, make-up work, and early finish ideas so that they can help themselves.

Grab & Go Sheets

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Mrs. J. from the UK uses these colorful wipeable pouches for changeable displays. She also uses them to hold papers for students to grab.

You can put some assignment sheets in each with a description for the kids. There are so many possibilities with these. You can find some here.

Student Job Lanyards

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For student duties consider creating lanyards for them to wear. This teacher from London says her students love to have a responsibility for the day and take pride in wearing their duty lanyard.

Pencil Organization Systems

Are you looking for a new way to organize the sharpened and unsharpened pencils or to keep students from having to sharpen pencils during class? Check out some clever ideas below to do that.

Straw Containers to Organize Pencils

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This is one of my favorite ideas to organized unsharpened and sharpened pencils because it just looks so cute. These are re-purposed straw containers. You can find a straw holder here.

Pencils In a Toothbrush Case

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This is a travel toothbrush case that this teacher uses to take control of all the pencil struggles! Each holds 5 pencils, one for each day of the week. At the end of the week each student turns their case in with all of their pencils sharpened.

That way they are ready to go each morning and at the end of the month the pencils are replaced with new ones. Here is a pack of travel toothbrush cases that would work perfect for this!

Pencil Patrol

IMAGE SOURCE | ROOM10SHENANIGANS

Ms. Wenger, a second-grade teacher from Illinois, has a pretty good pencil routine that you may want to follow. She has one class job, a pencil patroller, and they make sure everyone has a new pencil in the morning.

If a kiddo's pencil breaks or becomes dull during class, they can just exchange it for a sharp one. At the end of the day the Pencil patrol will gather the pencils again and sharpen them and return to the sharp bucket.

Parent Communication

IMAGE SOURCE | FULLERLITTLEMINDS

This teacher from South Carolina uses these calendars instead of emails to quickly communicate with the parents. She gives each student one in their take home folder, and she'll quickly fill in a face and sometimes jot a note down before dismissal every day.

Then she asks the parents to check them every night and initial them. She's teaching her students to reflect on their day and set goals on how to improve. Love this idea!

Resources at Your Fingertips

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This first-grade teacher from Florida made these resources so that she could have all the essentials, like schedules, student numbers and parent contacts with her at all times. She even made an extra for the sub.

Morning Routine

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Ashley created these slide templates to put on the board each day. So, that when the students come in every morning they know where to find their morning expectations. You can click the link above to find out where you can purchase the slide templates.

Motivations and Rewards

We all know that students love to be rewarded for good behavior and it works. Half of the fun of the reward for the students is the anticipation.

Check out below these brilliant ideas these teachers came up with to get their students super excited to receive an award and motivated to be on their best behavior.

Quiet Critters

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Sarah, a kindergarten teacher from Sydney, Australia, uses these little quiet critters when the class is a little noisy. Quiet critters like quiet learning. Each student gets a quiet critter that sits on their desk and likes to watch them learn.

These critters don't like to be touched and they hate noise! If the student is too loud, they'll lose their critter. This tool promotes quiet classrooms and respect towards others.

Pom-Pom Reward System

IMAGE SOURCE | MADEFORFIRSTGRADE

Here's a great way to keep the entire class motivated to be on task. You let the kids earn a scoop of pom-poms when you observe the class working hard, listening to directions and showing respect.

You can have kids with excellent behavior scoop the pom-poms into the jar. They'll love this! When the jar is filled up, they earn a reward like extra recess, popcorn, or whatever you choose.

Student Shout-Out Wall

IMAGE SOURCE | THEHOMESTYLETEACHER

This fourth-grade teacher created a student shout out wall for students to cheer and encourage each other. I love this idea of positive reinforcement among peers.

VIP Desk

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How fun would your students have with this? This teacher created a VIP desk with all the best stuff! Students can earn this based on good behavior. Would your students love this?

Earning a Ticket for Good Behavior

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This first-grade teacher lets her students earn a ticket and place it in the pocket that relates to their behavior. Then at the end of the week she picks a ticket from each pocket for a small reward.

Then she counts all the tickets for each student that can go toward their totals which can also earn prizes. I love how visual this reward system is!

Kerplunk Reward System

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Ms. Clarke a third-grade teacher from Australia pulls out a stick every time she catches a student following the class rules. If all the marbles fall by lunch time, then they get a special reward.

Students would love to anticipate the falling marbles. If you love this idea too, you can find the Kerplunk game here!

Positive Sticky Notes

IMAGE SOURCE | FLOURISHINGWITHMSFLORI

This 5 th, 6 th and special education teacher put a special reward on a piece of paper and then covers it with sticky notes. On the notes she writes positive behaviors that she wants to see in her class.

Then when she sees a student displaying one of the positive behaviors she removes the sticky. When the reward is revealed the students have earned it.

Reward Coupons

IMAGE SOURCE | STORIESBYSTORIE

This teacher from Ontario decided that the cheap dollar store items were not working for her class so she created these reward coupons that kids can earn for good behavior. These are things that the students actually want and bonus they are free!

Secret Student

IMAGE SOURCE | FULLERLITTLEMINDS

This first-grade teacher from Washington breaks out her secret student trick when she sees that the class expectations are starting to slip. Her tip is to not use it all the time or it'll lose its magic.

What she does is randomly chooses a student and then writes their name in a hidden spot and doesn't show the kids. Then when the class is not quite meeting expectations, she'll say, "I hope my secret student is lining up quickly and quietly" etc.

At the end of the day she decides if that secret student did a good job meeting the class expectations and if they did, she reveals the name and they get a fun prize.

If they didn't, then she doesn't reveal the name and says something like, "oh that's too bad the secret student was not on task today hopefully tomorrow's secret student can follow the class rules."

Classroom Store Cart

IMAGE SOURCE | TEACHINGWITHMS.HATCH

Brook, a fourth-grade teacher from Texas created this classroom store cart to help with classroom behavior management. Students can earn class money for good behavior, participating in class discussions, and completing assignments to spend in this fun class store.

She also picks a secret student everyday and if they are on task all day they earn $100. She said her classroom behavior is very pleasant since she started this new system!

Spin the Wheel

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This second-grade teacher created a prize wheel that students can spin for a classroom reward.

Blurt Beans

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Here's a fun idea from Mrs. Sanders, a second-grade teacher from Texas. She's trying to cut down on the blurting out during class. So, she gives each student three beans at the beginning of class.

Then she'll remove one if they interrupt her or another student. Then at the end of the day they get to add their leftover beans to the reward jar.

If you want to try this idea in your class you can use a couple of clear food storage containers like these.

Bubble Gum Machine Rewards

IMAGE SOURCE | ROOM10SHENANIGANS

Mrs. Wenger, a second-grade teacher from Illinois, uses a bubble gum machine filled with pencil top erasers as a reward for student good behavior.

The kids would love to get a reward out of a gumball machine! You could mix it up and try other small rewards too.

If you love this idea, you can find the bubble gum machine here. It comes in a few different fun colors!

Classroom Management Ideas for Behavior Expectations

These next few ideas will help to teach your students what their behavior expectations are. These are great to start at the beginning of the year or when you see the classroom behavior starting to slip.

When to Interrupt Board

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Katie, a kindergarten teacher from Texas, uses this, when to interrupt board, as a visual tool for the kids to understand her classroom expectations. You could also read them The Interrupting Chicken to help bring the lesson to life.

Using a Counter

IMAGE SOURCE | THEUNIQUECLASSROOM

This teacher uses this simple counter to count blurting. Think of all of the uses, even counting positive behavior that you see in your students.

You can find a counter that would work for this idea here.

First of the Year Expectations

IMAGE SOURCE | THRILLSANDRILLSINTHIRD

Here's a great way to set expectations for your class at the beginning of the year.

While You Were Out

IMAGE SOURCE | THETEACHERBOWTIQUE

Robyn, a fourth great teacher, has a great way to organize and help kids out that had to miss school. She creates a while you were out folder and fills it with the work that they can do at home when they miss school and then lets them know when to return it.

Phone Management Idea

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Addie, an ELA teacher, came up with a great idea for classroom management, she'll take a student's phone if she sees it during class.

Then she'll put it in a brown paper bag, staple it shut and then return it to the student. They can't open the bag until class is through. That way she doesn't have to be responsible for the student's phones.

Fix-It Ticket

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Shannon, a second-grade teacher, uses these "fix it tickets" as the next step after a warning has been given and behavior hasn't improved. She has them evaluate their own behavior so that they can do a little self-reflection.

This is used as a starting point for a conversation with the student on how then can improve. You could either send these home with the students or you could show the parents during conferences.

Managing Emotions

These next ideas will help your students to self-manage their feelings and emotions and let them know that it's ok to struggle sometimes.

The Struggle is Real

IMAGE SOURCE | ROCKYMOUNTAINCLASSROOM

Here's another great classroom management idea created by a 5 th grade teacher. It shows the students what it means to struggle. It also shows them what they can and can't do when they are struggling.

The personalized Bitmoji makes it fun. Plus, it's a great reminder for the students how they can work through their struggles and help them remember that the struggle is real, and we all have them.

Calm Down Kit

IMAGE SOURCE | THECHITOWNTEACHER

This first-grade teacher from Chicago has created a calm down kit as a tool to help kiddos self-manage their feelings. It's important to have tools for students to identify and self-manage their emotions and to teach them how to use these tools.

Coping Strategy Dice

IMAGE SOURCE | LITTLE.BUDS.IN.BLOOM

These coping strategies dice would make the perfect addition to a calming corner in your classroom. When your students are feeling overwhelmed, or upset they can retreat to a calm spot in the class and roll a die and follow the coping strategy.

These could also be used as a take home tool. You could give one to a child to take home and use when they need it. Click the link under the picture to find out where to order them.

Clever Classroom Management Ideas

The next few ideas that I'll show you are clever ideas that teachers have found to overcome some of the new challenges faced in the classroom like online learning.

Online Learning Engagement Strategy

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Do you have a hard time keeping the kids engaged during online learning? Well then take a cue from Kim, a first-grade teacher from Los Angeles.

She told her students if they were able to explain to the class how they solved their math problem and become the "teacher" that she would put a sticker on her face. Turns out it worked, the kids thought it was hilarious and were eager to become the teacher for class!

Keeping it Clean Strategy

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Lindsay, a fifth-grade teacher from New Jersey, created these cute smart sanitizer and anti-bacterial brain booster covers for her classroom cleaning and sanitizing products. What a cute idea to encourage the kids to keep clean and stay healthy.

Another new classroom management idea is desk pets? Have you tried them yet. I wrote an entire post about it...You can check it out here- Desk Pets | Why to Add Them To Your Class This Year

Now you've seen the 35 best classroom management ideas to try in your class this year. A big shout out to all the inspirational teachers that provided ideas for this post. Give them a little love by clicking on the link below the picture and giving them a follow on Instagram. If you liked this post click the buttons below to share on your favorite social media and you can click on the picture to save to one of your Pinterest boards.

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35 Brilliant Classroom Management Ideas for 2021

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The best classroom management ideas for online learning, your daily routine, helping kids manage emotions and setting classroom expectations. Plus, fun new ideas for rewards!