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enefits. Further, because storybook reading is a commonplace activity within the
preschool classroom context, integrating the current intervention methods into larger-
scale literacy skills intervention programs could enhance social-emotional skills and
could more comprehensively enhance children‘s emergent literacy skills.
Also related to methodology, future implementations of current intervention
methods should more accurately and more comprehensively assess children‘s social-
emotional skills. Statistical analyses revealed poor internal consistency reliability for
most MPAC scales. Future research should include refresher training prior to post-
intervention data collection and also reliability checks throughout data collection in order
to more accurately assess children‘s social skills. Future research should also employ
additional MPAC data collectors in order to avoid potentially negative outcomes of
observer fatigue. Additionally, the specific MPAC composites included in this study have
never before been used in a research study and thus need to be validated and replicated.
Future research should include the validation and replication of these specific composites
as a research goal or should employ an alternative assessment of children‘s social skills.
Finally, children‘s pre- and post-intervention emotion language was not thoroughly
assessed. The AKT included only eight items assessing children‘s affective labeling
skills, and results revealed no statistically significant findings for the AKT affective
labeling aggregate. An additional assessment of children‘s emotion language would
provide a more comprehensive examination of intervention effects on children‘s skills.
Finally, future research may improve intervention efforts. First, a closer
examination of the audiotaped storybook readings may provide further insight into the
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