Wings, Shells, and Fur: Surviving in the Wild is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.3.3 and Literacy.L.3.2g. Readers learn about how certain animals use wings, shells, and fur to survive in the wild in this book with full-page color photographs and narrative nonfiction text. This book should be paired with "How Animals Survive" (9781477725221) from the Rosen Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.