Around My Neighborhood is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.K.9 and Literacy.L.K.1. Narrative nonfiction text is supported by photographs of a home, a park, the library, a school, and a store. This book should be paired with Will’s Neighborhood (9781448888818) from the InfoMax Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.