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During the first week, the researcher observed the student in his classroomsetting to establish a baseline of the student’s behavior. The researcher read the stories with the student twice a week over three weeks. The researcher went into the student’s school two days a week for one hour. The stories were read with the student for 10 minutes and then a 50-minute observation followed. Qualitative data were collected through observations. Quantitative data collection included counting the opportunities the student had to engage in the inappropriate behavior and the amount of times he did engage in the inappropriate behavior. This number was converting it to a percentage.The student steadily decreased the number of times he engaged in the inappropriate targeted behavior after beginning interventions. The percent of time the student engaged in the behavior provided evidence of the connection. 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