I Can Grow Plants! is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.R.1.6 and Literacy.L.1.5. Large color illustrations and photographs of the various stages of plant growth along with narrative nonfiction text and an illustrated graph help the reader to build an understanding of how plants grow and what one could expect to find in a garden. This book should be paired with “How Plants Live and Grow" (9781448887705) from the Rosen Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.