My Dad Is a Nurse is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.1.2 and Literacy.RI.1.2. Large color photographs of nurses performing various tasks such as weighing patients, taking temperatures, and administering medicine–along with narrative nonfiction text–are used to illustrate the numerous tasks and responsibilities of nurses in addition to highlighting their importance in the field of medicine. This book should be paired with Nurses Are There to Help (9781448887828) from the Rosen Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.