How Plants Live and Grow is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.1.2 and Literacy.L.1.5. Young explorers will learn about plants and their life cycle through large photographs and narrative nonfiction text. This book should be paired with "I Can Grow Plants! (9781448889891) from the InfoMax Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.