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One of the things that the authors do in this first chapter is to try to delineate 4 types of talk that happen in the classroom. I believe that this is a good graphic organizer because it does not suggest that there has to be a specific order in which these types of talk can be manifested in the classroom. I supsect that in many of our classrooms that some of these types of talk might be under represented in day to day business and I believe that it is important that we all realize that there is a place for each of these types of talk in our daily routines. Does any one have any types of talk that have not been represented here or maybe some other useful activities that the rest of us should be learning more about?