Preschool and kindergarten are transition years in the U.S. educational system, and teaching four-, five- and six-year-olds means living on the margins of one educational community or another. But many preschool and kindergarten teachers like it that way. These teachers get to take ideas from the primary grades and combine them with the developmentally appropriate and child-centered teaching approaches of the early childhood community. The think-aloud is one useful technique that the author has picked up from her colleagues who teach older children, and it is easily adapted for preschool and kindergarten classrooms. In this article, the author shares how she uses think-aloud strategy in her preschool class.