Text interpretation: child labor

Text interpretation activity, aimed at students in the fourth year of elementary school, with questions developed about child labor.

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On Ilha de Deus, in Pernambuco, the houses are suspended under pieces of wood stuck in the mud of the mangrove. From a very early age, children gather, but it is not for playing. They work like big people.
The agility of the little hands shows that the activity has already become routine. Laiza is only 6 years old and follows the fate of so many children in the region. His job, since he was 5 years old, has been to clean the sururu one by one, a small shellfish that arrives dirty with mud and has to be removed from the shell. The journey is exhausting and only ends when buckets and cans are empty. Even adults complain about the tiresome task.

These are hours of no games and no smiles. All the attention is needed, as the shell of the sururu is thin and can cut like a blade.
In Brazil, work is only allowed after the age of 16, but real life is very different: second o IBGE, more than 4.8 million teenagers and children face the nightmare of early work in the parents.

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Questions

1) What is the subject covered in the text?
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2) What is the age at which young people can enter the labor market?
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3) In his opinion, is it okay for children to work like adults? Justify.
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4) What can be done to change this situation?
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5) Can children do small tasks at home? Explain.
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Per Camila Farias.

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