Leveled Readings / Women Miners in the English Coal Pits (1842)
Women Miners in the English Coal Pits (1842)
Testimony to the Mines Commission (1842)
These are adaptations, not the original. The original wording is always shown first. Each adapted version restates the same passage at about a grade 4, grade 7, or grade 10 reading level without adding or removing ideas. Quote the original in student writing.
Original wording
“I know a woman who has gone home and washed herself, taken to her bed, delivered of a child, and gone to work again under the week.”
Adapted · about grade 4
A woman went home, had a baby, and went back to work in the mine in less than a week.
Adapted · about grade 7
I know a woman who went home, washed, went to bed, gave birth, and went back to work within the week.
Adapted · about grade 10
I know a woman who went home, washed, took to her bed, gave birth, and returned to work within the same week.