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The research aimed to identify the effectiveness of the story in the development of emotional awareness among children aged (9-11) years at the primary stage in the city of Erbil for the academic year (2017-2018). To achieve the objective, the researcher used the experimental method. The sample included (36) students: (18) representing the experimental group, and (18) representing the control group. The emotional awareness scale from (Rieffe et al.). And the story was used as a training program. The results showed that there were significant differences between the mean grades of the emotional awareness and its fields for the experimental and control groups in the post-test, for the experimental group, there were no significant differences between the mean grade of emotional awareness and its fields for the experimental group in the post-test according to gender (male, female). (Published abstract)