<span>The town has basically given up on the Ewells. They let Bob collect wefare and hunt out of season because the town does not want Ewell's kids to starve.</span>
From the options listed the strategy that would be least useful for helping students monitor comprehension of a text as they are reading is (A) breaking long sentences into short phrases
This option does not seem the most effective since it is a simplification or summary of sentences and the simplification does not always imply apprehension nor a correct hierarchization of the text.