Visiting the White House is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.2.1 and Literacy.L.2.2a. Readers follow along on a tour of the White House complete with full-page color photographs and narrative nonfiction text, learning useful and fascinating facts about American history. This book includes a graphic organizer. This book should be paired with "e;Inside the White House"e; (9781477722695) from the InfoMax Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.