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What Each Version Changes is a free printable Grade 2 English worksheet on finding where two related stories differ, aligned to Common Core standard RL.2.9. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 23 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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Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. 23 of these 25 sets ask different questions — this skill does not have 25 questions to give. The rest reorder them, so no two pupils have the same paper in front of them.

What Each Version Changes

RL.2.9

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Read the story, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

What the Tide Left

Every low tide, Grandad and Tess walked out to the rock pools. Tess wanted to take a starfish home. Grandad said no. "It would die in a bucket," he said. "Look at it here instead." Tess crouched for a long time. She saw the starfish move — slowly, on hundreds of tiny feet she had not known it had. She did not ask again. On the way back she said, "It's better in the pool anyway."

  1. 1. How is this story different from "The New Boy"?
  2. 2. How is Tess like Iosif in "The New Boy"?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Fog Morning

The hill has gone. The wood has gone. The postbox stands in a cloud, alone. No sheep, no gate, no crooked tree — only the ten short steps I see. I walk. The ten steps walk with me. The gate appears. And then the tree. The hill comes back. The wood comes back. The fog rolls off along the track.

  1. 1. How is this poem different from "Rain on the Roof"?
  2. 2. How is this poem like "Rain on the Roof"?

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Answer key — What Each Version Changes

Set 14. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. This one is about Tess leaving the starfish in the pool; that one is about Iosif joining in with the football. 2. Both change after watching — Tess watches the starfish move, and Iosif watches the football.
  2. 2.1. This one has a speaker who says "I"; the rain poem has no person in it. 2. Both are about weather in verses that rhyme, and both end when it clears — the sun comes out, the fog rolls off.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.2.9 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.