ELAR Review

What comparison does the text make between hiring adults and children?

• There were no laws to protect children from working.

• Children could be paid less, and they were less likely to protest.

• Children had more time to work because they had fewer responsibilities.

• Conditions in factories and on farms were better suited for children.

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CCSS.RI.5.5

Which caption would best link the photograph to the text?

• Jane Addams was a leader of the National Child Labor Committee.

• Whole families moved from farms to cities to look for jobs.

• In modern times, children may legally work on the farms of relatives.

• Young children worked in mills, mines, and other dangerous jobs.

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TEKS.ELA.3.6C

TEKS.ELA.4.6C

TEKS.ELA.5.6C

TEKS.ELA.6.5C

TEKS.ELA.7.5C

Look at the chart. Which two jobs from the text would fall under the “Professional Services” category?

• mining

• working in a mill

• delivering messages

• selling newspapers

• working on a farm

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TEKS.ELA.3.10C

TEKS.ELA.4.10C

TEKS.ELA.5.10C

TEKS.ELA.6.9C

TEKS.ELA.7.9C

Read the sentence from paragraph 2. What does the word skimpier mean?

• better

• lower

• fairer

• easier

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TEKS.ELA.3.3B

TEKS.ELA.4.3B

TEKS.ELA.5.3B

TEKS.ELA.6.2B

TEKS.ELA.7.2B

Read the sentence from paragraph 4. What does the word restricting mean?

• A limiting

• B regulating

• C increasing

• D certifying

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TEKS.ELA.3.3B

TEKS.ELA.4.3B

TEKS.ELA.5.3B

TEKS.ELA.6.2B

TEKS.ELA.7.2B

Read paragraph 1 and look at the chart. Why might there have been so many child workers in agriculture in 1920?

• A More people were needed on farms than in any other occupation.

• B Children were needed to replace farm workers who had moved to cities.

• C Farmers thought children were more efficient at farm work than adults.

• D Laws had not been made to protect children from working on farms.

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TEKS.ELA.3.10C

TEKS.ELA.4.10C

TEKS.ELA.5.10C

TEKS.ELA.6.9C

TEKS.ELA.7.9C

Read the sentence from paragraph 5. What does the word minimum mean?

• A highly recommended

• B the lowest allowed

• C very beneficial

• D the most appropriate

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TEKS.ELA.3.3B

TEKS.ELA.4.3B

TEKS.ELA.5.3B

TEKS.ELA.6.2B

TEKS.ELA.7.2B

Which two things are being compared in paragraph 6?

• child workers and adult workers

• federal and state child labor laws

• child labor in the past and in the present

• southern mills and other child labor sites

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TEKS.ELA.3.10B

TEKS.ELA.4.10B

TEKS.ELA.5.10B

TEKS.ELA.6.9B

TEKS.ELA.7.9B

When the narrator first arrived at the mill, which characteristics of that setting frightened her? Choose two answers.

• how noisy the machinery was

• how many mill buildings there were

• how many women were employed there

• what types of tasks were being performed

• how crowded the mill buildings were inside

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TEKS.ELA.6.6G

TEKS.ELA.7.6G

TEKS.ELA.8.6G

TEKS.ELA.CR.4E

TEKS.ELA.E2.5G

Where did the narrator most likely write this text?

• at the mill

• on her family’s farm

• at her boardinghouse

• in a meeting of the Lowell Female Reform Association