Which option describes retelling a familiar story with prompting?

• A. Reads the book aloud without help.
• B. Retells some events or information from a familiar story with close teacher prompting.
• C. Only uses pictures to tell the story.
• D. Invents a new story.

Answer: (B)

Guided retelling with prompts captures a student’s ability to recall and sequence events from a familiar story with supportive cues from the teacher. The prompts help access memory, organize the narrative, and express it in words, showing both comprehension and expressive language. This is different from reading aloud without help, which mainly tests decoding and fluency, not how well the student reconstructs the story. It’s also not just using pictures to tell the story, which relies on visuals rather than recalling the actual events. Inventing a new story goes beyond retelling and demonstrates creative production rather than reproducing a known tale. So retelling with prompting best describes the described activity.