Representation in Media :
media literacy education materials for parents, families and children

Welcome to an exclusive service of MediaLiteracy.com -- links to free downloadable media literacy fact sheets, discussion guides and other materials, organized by subject category.

Most downloads are easy-to-print PDF files which require the free Adobe Reader software to open. Download Adobe Reader here

available from Project Look Sharp, Ithaca College

Many outstanding free curriculum kits, searchable from the drop-down box on their home page for terms including Race/Racism, Class/Labor, Women/Sexism, Islam, Indigenous Perspectives, Immigration, Hero and Stereotypes.

available from the Media Education Foundation

The following Study Guides were created for use with the excellent DVD videos produced and sold by the Media Education Foundation. As stand-alone print materials, you will still find them useful for reference purposes.

• Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
• Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising’s Images of Women (37pages, a large PDF file)
• Slim Hopes: Advertising & the Obsession with Thinness (also 37 pages)

available from Children Now

• a page with excellent resources on Media Messages About Race, Class and Gender

available from Media-Awareness, the awesome Canadian media literacy site

Here's an excellent free lesson plan to help students grade 9-12 explore the issues surrounding representation of non-white people in the newsroom and in daily newspapers. Also, you can type stereotypes in the Search box at the upper right of the site's homepage (orange bar) for links to excellent materials.

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