Tara's Telescope is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.3.6 and Literacy.L.3.1f. Readers follow Tara as she learns how she can use a telescope to study the stars in this book with full-page color photographs and narrative nonfiction text. This book should be paired with "Through My Telescope" (9781477726174) from the Rosen Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.