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.