While socialization in the home is key to children's acquisition of cultural norms, school is another important setting in which children are socialized into their cultural environment (Schieffelin & Ochs, 1986). In this paper, the author employs conversation analysis (CA) to examine how young children are socialized towards appropriate classroom behavior by a teacher's upgraded use of directives, embodied directives, and finally, metacommentary. Specifically, this study focuses on the strategy one teacher uses within the span of a single class to get a misbehaving student to physically move back to her partner during group work.