Who Was Neil Armstrong? is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.3.1 and Literacy.L.3.1e. Readers learn about the life of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon with photographs and narrative nonfiction text. A timeline of Armstrong’s life is included. This book should be paired with Neil Armstrong: First Man on the Moon (9781477726402) from the InfoMax Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.