standards

American Library Association - [|Information Power] - Includes a PDF of information literacy standards.

ALA's [|Presidential Committee on Information Literacy: Final Report], though first published in 1989, still offers insights into accessing and managing information.

[|McRel] language arts standards connections:
 * [|Standard 5. Uses the general skills and strategies of the reading process]
 * Benchmark 5. [|Understands specific devices an author uses to accomplish his or her purpose (e.g., persuasive techniques, style, word choice, language structure)]
 * [|Standard 7. Uses reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of informational texts]
 * Benchmark 5.[|Draws conclusions and makes inferences based on explicit and implicit information in texts]

[|NCTE] The National Council of Teachers of English - see #6, rationale for the teaching and learning of nonprint media.

[|NYS standards] - PDF of New York State standards

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