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Not a professional and you should reach out to a dog trainer if possible.
In the meantime, negative reinforcement will not give you the desired responses. You could end up increasing reactiveness, justifying their behavior or having them only fear and listen when you're around.
Instead a lot of the basic rules of parenting a toddler applies. Positive reinforcement and distraction techniques are preferred from trainers I've worked with. Treating the chewing is easier than responding to the aggression. But training overall will help both.
If you have something they want more, they should give up what they took.
This article has some information about possessive aggression that seems to provide good information.
Thank you so much for the advice! I'm looking into trainers. My boy knows "leave it" when he is actively trying to get something he shouldn't. I think I'm going to use "drop it" when he has things in his mouth. I don't want him to get "leave it" confused after taking almost a year to learn it.