Answer:
The speaker believes that she and her peers ought to be in charge of assigning sentences in cases like Hester's.
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.