Cynthia Greenleaf's "Fostering Metacognitive Conversation in Professional Learning Communities and Subject-Area Classrooms" is the featured article in this issue (February 2006) of AdLIT's In Perspective. The author explains the significance of and engagement in metacognitive conversation in professional learning communities and subject-area classrooms in seven sections: (1) Tapping Subject-Area Teachers' Expertise in Reading; (2) Fostering Metacognitive Conversation in the Classroom; (3) Introducing Think-Aloud as a Metacognitive Routine; (4) To Prepare and Teach Think-Aloud; and (5) Metacognitive Conversation is Key; (6) Using Think-Aloud to Teach Subject-Specific Thinking Processes; and (7) Metacognitive Conversation Apprentices Students to Subject-Area Reading. (author/ebm)