Developed by the University of Oxford, The Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI) is a language intervention designed to support early elementary students’ vocabulary, listening, and narrative skill development.
This resource is a framework for teaching perspective taking through narrative texts using a story map and explicit instruction of mental state vocabulary. Students identify key points in the story and discuss characters’ thoughts and feelings throughout the narrative.
This resource is a tool for conducting observations to assess and improve teacher-student and student-student interactions, with a focus on open-ended questions and extended conversations to promote the development of student listening comprehension skill.