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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.

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"?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Kite in the Elm

Sami's kite caught in the top of the elm on the very first day. He tried throwing a ball at it. He tried a long stick. He tried shaking the trunk with both arms. The kite stayed exactly where it was. His sister Rana came out with a bucket and a length of washing line. She tied the line to the bucket handle, threw the bucket over the branch, and pulled. The branch bent. The kite slid off and dropped into the grass. "How did you know that would work?" said Sami. "I didn't," said Rana.

  1. 1. How is Sami's problem different from Ada's?
  2. 2. How is Rana like Ada in "The Bread That Would Not Rise"?

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Answer key — What Each Version Changes

Set 18. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. 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.
  2. 2.1. Sami's problem was outside his control; Ada's came from her own mistake. 2. Both keep trying rather than giving up when something goes wrong.

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