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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.

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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. 1. How is a scene from a play different from a chapter of a story?
  2. 2. What does this scene share with a story?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Conker

First stanza: Inside the green and spiny case, packed in a lining soft as silk, it waits all summer in the dark and grows the colour of stained milk. Second stanza: Then autumn cracks the case in two. It falls. It hits the path and shines so hard and bright and newly made you cannot walk past it. Nobody can. Third stanza: By Sunday it is dull and cracked and lighter than it was before — a small brown stone inside a pocket, and no one wants it any more.

  1. 1. How is a poem different from the play scene?
  2. 2. What do this poem and the play scene share?

LessonPrint · RL.3.9 · Set 24 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — Same Author, Same Characters

Set 24. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. A scene gives speech and stage directions only; a chapter can tell you what a character thinks. 2. Characters, a setting, a problem and a turn — it just presents them differently.
  2. 2.1. A poem is in stanzas with rhythm and comparison; a scene is speech and stage directions. 2. Both are short and both build to a turn — the conker falling, Jon putting the lid down — and leave the reader to conclude.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.3.9 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.