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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.

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.

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. 1. How is this story different from "The New Boy"?
  2. 2. How is Tess like Iosif in "The New Boy"?

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Answer key — What Each Version Changes

Set 7. 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. This one is about Tess leaving the starfish in the pool; that one is about Iosif joining in with the football. 2. Both change after watching — Tess watches the starfish move, and Iosif watches the football.

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