Why We Need Hospitals

Why We Need Hospitals is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.1.8 and Literacy.L.1.1. Large color photographs of nurses, doctors, patients, and medical equipment along with narrative nonfiction text clarify the importance and responsibility that hospitals and hospital workers have to help all kinds of people. This book should be paired with "Who Works at the Hospital? (9781448887910) from the Rosen Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.