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Same Topic, Different Facts is a free printable Grade 1 English worksheet on finding what two texts share and where they differ, aligned to Common Core standard RI.1.9. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 24 of them with different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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Same Topic, Different Facts

RI.1.9

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Read the text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

What Roots Do

Roots grow down while the stem grows up. They do two jobs. First, roots hold the plant in the ground. A tall tree in a storm stays up because its roots spread wide under the soil. Second, roots drink. Tiny hairs on the roots take in water from the soil. The water travels up the stem to the leaves. A plant with damaged roots wilts, even if it is watered.

  1. 1. How is a root different from a seed?
  2. 2. How are roots like a building's foundation?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

How Milk Gets to the Shop

A dairy cow is milked twice a day, in the morning and the evening. The milk goes straight into a cold tank. Cold milk keeps fresh much longer than warm milk. A tanker takes the milk to a dairy. There it is heated for a few seconds to kill germs, then cooled again fast. This is called pasteurising. Last, the milk is poured into bottles and driven to the shop.

  1. 1. How is milk different from honey?
  2. 2. How is making milk ready like making honey?

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Answer key — Same Topic, Different Facts

Set 17. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. A root holds and feeds a growing plant; a seed is what the plant starts from. 2. Both are underground and both hold something upright.
  2. 2.1. Milk comes from a cow and is heated by people; honey is made by bees from nectar. 2. Both follow a fixed set of steps — nectar to honey, and milk from cow to shop — before the food reaches people.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RI.1.9 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.