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ief, may lead to children‘s demonstrating greater productive involvement in classroom<br />

activities.<br />

Regarding educational policy, analyses assessing teacher compliance with<br />

intervention methods also revealed that children‘s participation in greater numbers <strong>of</strong><br />

emotion-laden st<strong>or</strong>ybook readings predicted their subsequent affective perspective taking<br />

skills. Adding emotion-laden st<strong>or</strong>ybook readings to the regular Head Start curriculum<br />

may also enhance children‘s emotion knowledge beyond Head Start programming alone.<br />

Teachers can read emotion-laden st<strong>or</strong>ybooks during small group and individualized<br />

activities with children in <strong>or</strong>der to achieve this goal. ANOVA-based research findings<br />

were also notew<strong>or</strong>thy f<strong>or</strong> educational policy. Results suggested that when compared to<br />

children in full-day Head Start classrooms, children participating in half-day Head Start<br />

classrooms whose teachers used dialogic reading techniques while reading emotion-laden<br />

st<strong>or</strong>ybooks generally demonstrated the most positive social-emotional outcomes. This<br />

finding can inf<strong>or</strong>m policies to include additional social-emotional intervention<br />

programming in half-day classrooms in <strong>or</strong>der to enhance children‘s emotion knowledge.<br />

By altering st<strong>or</strong>ybook reading practices within half-day classrooms specifically, programs<br />

could maximize positive developmental outcomes <strong>of</strong> Head Start participation in half-day<br />

classrooms in a time- and cost-effective manner.<br />

Conclusion<br />

Although regression-based analyses assessing intervention effects provided no<br />

evidence <strong>of</strong> intervention effectiveness, ANOVA-based analyses examining interactions<br />

<strong>of</strong> experimental group assignment and Head Start programming dosage pinpointed<br />

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