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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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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.

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. How is a poem different from the stories in this book?
  2. 2. What does this poem share with a story?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

The Lion and the Mouse

A lion lay sleeping in the sun. A mouse ran across his paw and woke him. The lion caught the mouse in one hand. "Please let me go," said the mouse. "One day I may help you." The lion laughed. How could a mouse help a lion? But he opened his hand. Weeks later the lion walked into a hunter's net. He roared and pulled, and the ropes only tightened. The mouse heard him. She came at once and gnawed the ropes, one strand at a time, until the lion could step free.

  1. 1. How is this fable like "The Crow and the Pitcher"?
  2. 2. How is the mouse different from the crow?

LessonPrint · RL.2.9 · Set 21 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — What Each Version Changes

Set 21. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. A poem is written in short lines and verses, with rhyme and a repeated line like "rain on the roof". 2. It has a beginning, a change and an ending — the rain stops and the sun comes out.
  2. 2.1. In both, patience and small repeated actions win — pebble after pebble, and strand after strand of rope. 2. The mouse helps somebody else; the crow solves a problem of her own.

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