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.
Set 17 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
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 New Boy
A new boy called Iosif joined the class in November. He did not speak much English yet.
At playtime he stood by the wall. Some children waved. He looked away.
Marta noticed he was watching the football. She rolled the ball to him. He stopped it neatly and rolled it back.
They passed it for ten minutes without saying a word. When the bell went, Iosif said one word: "Tomorrow?"
"Tomorrow," said Marta.
1. How is Marta like the mouse in the fable?
2. How is this story different from the fable of the lion?
2.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. How is Ada like the crow in the fable?
2. How is this story different from a fable?
LessonPrint · RL.2.9 · Set 17 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — What Each Version Changes
Set 17. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Both do something small that turns out to matter a lot. 2. This one is about real children at school; the fable is about animals and states a moral.
2.1. Both keep going after a first attempt fails. 2. It is about a real kitchen and does not end with a stated moral about animals.
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.2.9 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.