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class clown
By Fourth Grade Teacher

Do you call on him and then he makes these comments or does he yell them out? If you call on him an easy solution is to stop. I've got a couple in my room who seek this kind of attention. I spoke to them and told them
if they were going to answer in silly ways or try to make jokes they were taking away from the learning of others and I wouldn't call on them.
Do you think talking to the rest of the group would help? You could ask them to stop reacting to his comments/jokes so he has no reason to seek the attention.
Also, I've never tried this but a lot of people on here seem to post about a system

where a child is allowed a certain number of comments or questions per day and when they run out that's it. I think you give them tokens and take them after each comment. The only thing I'm not sure about is the consequence if there continues to be yelling, out, etc. I guess you could employ whatever discipline system you normally use.