Welcome to an exclusive service of MediaLiteracy.com -- links to free, printer-friendly downloads: media literacy fact sheets, discussion guides and other materials on media, advertising and consumerism. Click here for other subject categories. These organizations constantly add to their list, so follow the link for the most updated list of downloadable media literacy education resources.

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available from the Media Education Foundation

• Advertising: Exposures & Industry Statistics
• Deconstructing a Print Advertisement
• Deconstructing a Video Advertisement
• Deconstructing An Alcohol Advertisement
• Substances As Stress Relievers: Deconstructing Advertisements

available from the National Institute of Media and the Family,
individual fact sheets on each of these topics:

Video Games
Children and Media Violence
Effects of Video Game Playing on Children
Computer and Video Game Addiction
Television
Children and Television
History of Television
MTV
Media's Effects on Girls: Body Image and Gender Identity
Televison's Effect on Reading and Academic Achievement
Television Professional Wrestling and Children
Internet & Computers
Take a MediaWise Tour of teen hangout, MySpace
Children and Internet pornography
Children and Advertising
Alcohol Advertising and Youth
Internet Filters: Making Web Surfing Safer for Children
Internet Advertising and Children
Music
Music and Children
Media Use
Media Use
Health Issues & Advertising
Media Use And Obesity Among Children
Advertising and Children’s Use of Tobacco
Children and Advertising
Alcohol Advertising and Youth
Children's Advertising and Gender Roles
Commercial Advertising in Schools
Word-of-Mouth Marketing and Minors

available from the Center for a Commercial-Free Childhood

• The Facts About Marketing to Kids (28 page booklet)
• Marketing to Children: An Overview
• New Marketing Techniques
• Marketing to Babies and Toddlers
• The Commercialization of Play
• Marketing, Materialism, and Family Stress
• Marketing in Schools
• Food Marketing and Childhood Obesity
• Marketing Violence to Children
• Marketing Sex to Children
• Marketing, Body Image and Eating Disorders
• Alcohol Marketing and Underage Drinking
• Tobacco Marketing and Children

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

• Many excellent lesson plans (search on the right-hand bar) with related handouts, including advertising photo images, on advertising and marketing to young people.