Organizing the Wonders Reading Series

My school just got a brand new reading series this school year. The Wonders reading series is new in itself since it only came out in 2014. Since it's so new there is very little out there about it from fellow teacher bloggers. The biggest problem I had at the beginning was where to store it all! It came in about 12 boxes (no joke) and contains vocab cards, interactive read aloud cards, sight word cards, picture cards etc. basically a whole lot of cards. There's 10 units in the kindergarten series and finding a place to store all that was causing me stress. I didn't want to lose any pieces of this brand new reading series but I also wanted to be able to find what I needed. I finally think I managed to figure something out that works for me! I took some pictures to show you how I store all these materials. 

I got this file box at staples. Each unit has its own hanging file and within those are folders for each week of the unit. These folders hold my vocab cards, sight word cards, and retell cards. This is so much easier than just piles of unorganized cards!

The top shelf is the guided reading books. Wonders organizes them into three categories which are color coded: green for beyond level, blue for on level, and orange for approaching level. There is also a purple level for ELLs which we don't have. I organized them in order of unit within each basket since each book is part of a weekly unit theme. Now they are easy to find and put away.

Here is a zoomed out view of that shelf. The second shelf holds the unit teacher manuals as well as the alphabetized picture cards, the letter sound cards and the small versions of the unit big books. 

The hardest part to figure out storage for was these large interactive read aloud cards. They didn't fit in the file box so I had to get creative. I ended up sorting them by unit and binder clipping them together. I store them in a crate also on the brown shelves. I even went crazy and used my label maker to label the binder clips so I can quickly find the unit I need. 

I hope this post helps someone else who is dealing with the struggle of storing all the Wonders reading materials!