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 6 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.
What the Tide Left
Every low tide, Grandad and Tess walked out to the rock pools.
Tess wanted to take a starfish home. Grandad said no. "It would die in a bucket," he said. "Look at it here instead."
Tess crouched for a long time. She saw the starfish move — slowly, on hundreds of tiny feet she had not known it had.
She did not ask again. On the way back she said, "It's better in the pool anyway."
1. How is Tess like Iosif in "The New Boy"?
2. How is this story different from "The New Boy"?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.
The Crow and the Pitcher
A crow had flown for hours without finding water. At last she saw a pitcher standing in a garden.
She landed on the rim and looked in. There was water at the bottom, but the neck was narrow and her beak could not reach it. She pushed the pitcher. It was too heavy to tip.
Then the crow noticed the pebbles on the path. She picked one up and dropped it in. Then another. Then another. Each pebble pushed the water a little higher.
After forty pebbles, the water reached the top. The crow drank until she had had enough.
1. How is this fable like "The Lion and the Mouse"?
2. How is the crow's problem different from the lion's?
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Answer key — What Each Version Changes
Set 6. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Both change after watching — Tess watches the starfish move, and Iosif watches the football. 2. This one is about Tess leaving the starfish in the pool; that one is about Iosif joining in with the football.
2.1. In both, a small or weak creature solves something that strength could not. 2. The crow solves her own problem with pebbles; the lion is freed by somebody else.
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.2.9 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.