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DRA retelling should follow a script of naming the characters, the setting, the situation, the resolution, and the moral. I gave DS the script, first as a series of 8-9 questions for him to answer to me in order that I'd written out for him, and then we eventually faded the paper list of questions to him retelling it without a piece of paper.

Edit: My point is that the DRA assumes that a child knows how to retell a story with a few vague "tell me more" prompts from the teacher. Retelling in the style demanded by the DRA is not an obvious skill for a lot of kids. Teachers tend to interpret the inability to retell as lack of comprehension instead of not knowing the script. If you don't naturally discover the script, the "tell me more" prompts are frustration and infuriating, and they just make the process torture. I had to give my child the script.