How Farming Has Changed is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.2.3 and Literacy.L.2.5b. Readers learn about the history of farming and how it has changed through technology in this book with full-page color photographs and narrative nonfiction text. This book should be paired with "Farming Then and Now (9781477724231) from the Rosen Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.