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Blankie, Chrysanthemum, and Kindergarten Rocks!) include positive emotional story
events as well.
Following Whitehurst et al. (1994, 1999), book guides providing suggestions for
implementing CROWD and emotion coaching questions, as well as hints for using
CROWD questions and emotion-coaching behaviors on individual book pages, were
added to books provided to classrooms assigned to the intervention group to encourage
discussion of emotional storybook content (except for the books listed under the General
Emotions subheading because these introduce several emotions rather than telling a story
about emotions (see Whitehurst, 1994)). To maintain consistency across storybooks,
guides already included in storybooks provided to classrooms assigned to the intervention
group were concealed.
Fidelity of intervention implementation. To limit the potential for teachers
assigned to each experimental group to learn of the differences between the books
provided to teachers assigned to the intervention and book reading control groups, each
classroom was provided its own book (i.e., no sharing of storybooks was necessary to
implement the intervention). Further, alterations to books provided to teachers assigned
to the intervention group were only included inside book covers and on book pages (i.e.,
were not visible on book covers); and books were kept in large envelopes or stored in
secured locations in each classroom to limit their accessibility to others entering the
classrooms.
To ensure that teachers maintained compliance with research procedures, to
monitor children‘s participation rates, and to later evaluate the fidelity of the intervention,
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