Read the passage, and answer the questions.
What is the author probably telling you about children who worked in coal mines?
They were lazy.
They played a lot.
They liked to work.
They had hard lives.
Based on this passage, what can you tell about coal mines?
Coal mines are bright and warm.
Coal mines are like big, open fields.
Coal mines are scary and dangerous places.
Coal mines are exciting and fun places to work.
Which sentence shows that work days were long in the coal mines?
The sound of pickaxes and crumbling rock is all around.
Children often worked in caves like this, mining coal.
They would work in these mines from sunrise to sunset.
Until they are sixteen, they cannot work in most jobs.
According to the passage, what is the main difference between children before 1840 and today?
Children before 1840 could earn money, but today they can’t.
Today, there are laws that say kids can’t do dangerous jobs.
Children today are lazy, but in the past they worked very hard.
Today, kids get an allowance, so they do not have to do work.
