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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.

The Bread That Would Not Rise

Nana let Ada make the bread on her own for the first time. Ada measured the flour, the salt and the water. She kneaded the dough until her arms ached. Then she covered the bowl and waited. An hour later the dough sat in the bowl exactly as she had left it. It had not risen at all. Nana looked at the packet on the shelf. "You used the salt twice," she said. "There is no yeast in it." Ada wanted to throw the bowl across the kitchen. Instead she washed it out and started again.

  1. 1. How is this story different from a fable?
  2. 2. How is Ada like the crow in the fable?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Rain on the Roof

Rain on the roof, rain on the road, rain on the back of a slow brown toad. Rain on the window, rain on the pane, rain on the roses, rain, rain, rain. Rain in the gutter, rain in the drain, rain till the puddle is deep as a lane. Rain on the roof, rain on the road — and out comes the sun for the slow brown toad.

  1. 1. What does this poem share with a story?
  2. 2. How is a poem different from the stories in this book?

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Answer key — What Each Version Changes

Set 15. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. It is about a real kitchen and does not end with a stated moral about animals. 2. Both keep going after a first attempt fails.
  2. 2.1. It has a beginning, a change and an ending — the rain stops and the sun comes out. 2. A poem is written in short lines and verses, with rhyme and a repeated line like "rain on the roof".

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