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 25 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 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?
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. How is this fable like "The Crow and the Pitcher"?
2. How is the mouse different from the crow?
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Answer key — What Each Version Changes
Set 25. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. 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.
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.