Neil Armstrong: First Man on the Moon is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.3.8 and Literacy.L.3.1a. Photographs accompanied by narrative nonfiction text introduce readers to the life of the first man to walk on the moon, Neil Armstrong. This book should be paired with “Who Was Neil Armstrong?" (9781477725825) from the Rosen Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.