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 2 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 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. How is Rana like Ada in "The Bread That Would Not Rise"?
2. How is Sami's problem different from Ada's?
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Answer key — What Each Version Changes
Set 2. 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 trying rather than giving up when something goes wrong. 2. Sami's problem was outside his control; Ada's came from her own mistake.
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.2.9 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.