Our Country’s Symbols

Our Country’s Symbols is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.1.9 and Literacy.L.1.1. Large color photographs of monuments, landmark buildings, historical sites, and symbolic objects such as the American flag along with narrative nonfiction text illustrate to readers what symbols mean and how they gain significance. This book should be paired with Symbols of the United States (9781448887613) from the Rosen Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.