November 2012 Volume 9, Number 4 	Monthly ENewsletter of Maine Department of Education 	
	This month’s edition of Literacy Links will examine the second of the six critical instructional shifts required of the Common Core State Standards for ELA—Balance of Literary and Informational Texts. Spotlight on… Balancing Informational and Literary Texts 	

Online Resources… 

https://www.teachingchannel.org/ 

Summary of Professional Texts… 
This month we feature a professional text and an article that focus on aspects of balancing use of informational and literary text and the CCSS. 

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http://www.readingrockets.org/article/52251/ 

Children’s Literature… 

ISBN13: 9780374321840 

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ISBN13: 9780810997356 

News from Maine’s English Language Arts Team…