Same Author, Same Characters is a free printable Grade 3 English worksheet on finding what two related stories share and change, aligned to Common Core standard RL.3.9. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 24 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 15 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. 24 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.
Same Author, Same Characters
RL.3.9
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Read the text, then answer the questions.
1.Read the text, then answer the questions.
The Museum Key (a scene from a play)
SCENE TWO. The museum store room. Night. Boxes everywhere. A single desk lamp.
PRIYA: (whispering) It was here on Tuesday. On this shelf.
JON: You are sure it was this shelf?
PRIYA: I dusted it. I am sure.
JON: (lifting a lid) Then somebody moved it after Tuesday.
PRIYA: Or before Tuesday, and I dusted the empty space.
(Pause. JON puts the lid down slowly.)
JON: That is worse.
PRIYA: I know.
1. What does this scene share with a story?
2. How is a scene from a play different from a chapter of a story?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.
The Night the Lamp Went Out
Grace's father kept the lighthouse. On the worst night of the winter, the lamp went out.
He was ill in bed. Grace was eleven.
She carried the oil up ninety-seven steps in the dark, twice, because the can was too heavy to lift full. Her arms shook so much on the second trip that she had to sit down halfway.
She trimmed the wick the way she had watched a hundred times. She struck the match on the fourth try.
By the time the light swung out across the water, three ships had already turned back. Grace never knew whether she had been in time. She decided not to think about it.
1. How is Grace's problem different from Halim's?
2. How is Grace like Halim in "The Wrong Bus"?
LessonPrint · RL.3.9 · Set 15 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Same Author, Same Characters
Set 15. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Characters, a setting, a problem and a turn — it just presents them differently. 2. A scene gives speech and stage directions only; a chapter can tell you what a character thinks.
2.1. Grace's is a job she chooses to finish; Halim's is a mistake he has to get out of. 2. Both keep going alone — Grace up the lighthouse stairs, Halim working out the 41 — with no adult to take over.
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.3.9 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.