(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.