State of New Jersey Department of Education

STANDARD 3.5 (VIEWING AND MEDIA LITERACY) Grade One

Strands with Cumulative Progress Indicators

A. Constructing Meaning

  1. Retell the story from a favorite media program (e.g., television, movie).
  2. Distinguish between "pretend" and "real" in the media.
  3. Begin to recognize that media messages have different purposes.
  4. Speculate about visual representations (e.g., pictures, artwork).
  5. Use simple graphs and charts to report data (cf. mathematics standard 4.4-A).
  6. Begin to recognize the work of a favorite illustrator.
  7. Begin to compare and contrast media characters.

B. Visual and Verbal Messages

  1. Begin to interpret messages in simple advertisements.
  2. Sequence a series of pictures or images to tell a story.