Mastering the Message
(NAA) This guide is designed to help students gain control of media messages by analyzing them and then using what they learn to create messages of their own.

Media Literacy Kit
This new Media Lit Kit from the Center for Media Literacy helps organize and promote the importance of teaching this expanded notion of ãliteracy.ä At its core are the basic higher-order critical thinking skills ö e.g. knowing how to identify key concepts, how to make connections between multiple ideas, how to ask pertinent questions, formulate a response, identify fallacies ö that form the very foundation of both intellectual freedom and the exercising of full citizenship in a democratic society.

Download the Kit at: http://www.medialit.org/pdf/mlk_orientationguide.pdf

Visit the Center for Media Literacy web site at: http://www.medialit.org

Messages & Meaning
(NAA) The instructional activities in this guide are organized around four units: Accessing, Analyzing, Evaluating, and Communicating Media Messages.  Each activity is identified by the media concept it illustrates with many accompanied by reproducible activity sheets.