Water on Earth is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.1.6 and Literacy.L.1.1. Large color photographs of streams, lakes, rivers, vapor water, and ground water-along with narrative nonfiction text and illustrated graphs of the water cycle-illustrate how water is an active component of our human lives and on our physical earth. This book should be paired with "e;Earth's Water"e; (9781448888184) from the Rosen Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.