ARM 10.54.3090. NOVICE READING PERFORMANCE STANDARDS FOR END OF GRADE 4

(1) A fourth-grade student at the novice reading level is beginning to attain prerequisite knowledge and skills that are fundamental for reading at each benchmark. He/she: (a) shows strength in detail, but not main idea; (b) randomly applies, articulates, and self-monitors decoding and comprehension strategies, seldom integrating, and using one strategy at a time; (c) sometimes demonstrates an understanding of the elements of fiction and nonfiction; (d) often limits reading selections; (e) sometimes defines a purpose for reading; (f) recognizes, with coaching, an author's purpose; (g) compares and integrates, with coaching, information from two sources at his/her reading level; and (h) distinguishes, with coaching, fact from opinion at his/her reading level.