ARM 10.54.3294. NOVICE LITERATURE PERFORMANCE STANDARDS FOR END OF GRADE 8

(1) An eighth-grade student at the novice level of literature is beginning to attain the prerequisite knowledge and skills that are fundamental at each benchmark in literature. He/she: (a) usually comprehends material at the literal level but seldom at the figurative level; (b) makes simple predictions and brief descriptions when responding to literary works; (c) infrequently identifies literary devices, forms, and languages and, with assistance, describes how these impact literary works as a reader, listener, and viewer; (d) selects literary works, yet has difficulty expressing reasons for choices; and (e) often focuses on restatement of story and summarization with little comparison or investigation of the work's meaning or form.