Correct Response: D. Asking advanced readers to elaborate on specific story elements in their retelling prompts them to use higher-order thinking skills (e.g., inferencing) during the assessment, which is an appropriate differentiation strategy for advanced learners. For example, asking the children to elaborate on how a character responds to a story event (e.g., "How do you think the character feels when…") encourages them to make inferences by combining their background knowledge about stories, characters, situations, and feelings with evidence in the text to elaborate on things that may not be explicitly stated in the text. Option A is incorrect because asking literal questions can serve to limit children's retelling to the explicitly stated events or details in the story and does not promote higher-order thinking. Similarly, Options B and C are incorrect because summarizing an informational text (B) or recording the children's retelling (C) does not engage the children in higher-order thinking.
