Exploring Rocks and Minerals is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.1.9 and Literacy.L.1.4. The exciting minerals and rocks of Earth are explored in this fun volume. Readers are shown how rocks form and the broad variety of them found in Nature. A graphic organizer shows readers where fossils are found. This book should be paired with "Inside Earth: Rocks and Minerals" (9781448890439) from the InfoMax Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.