Mighty U.S. Mountains is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.3.9 and Literacy.L.3.1g. Readers are introduced to the mountain ranges of the United States with full-page color photographs along with narrative nonfiction text. This book should be paired with "Mountains of the United States (9781477724712) from the Rosen Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.