ARM 10.54.3890. NOVICE MEDIA LITERACY PERFORMANCE STANDARDS FOR THE END OF GRADE 4

(1) A fourth-grade student at the novice level of media literacy is beginning to attain the prerequisite knowledge and skills fundamental at each benchmark in media literacy. He/she: (a) recognizes, with assistance, that media messages are constructed; (b) has difficulty constructing appropriate media messages and rarely identifies strengths and weaknesses; (c) recognizes, but seldom uses media for a variety of purposes and has difficulty identifying the ways media have changed; and (d) incompletely recognizes media's influence and rules, and seldom distinguishes among fact, fiction, and opinion.