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 8 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 Fox and the Well
A fox leaned too far over a well and fell in. The water was shallow, but the walls were smooth and far too high to climb.
He was still sitting there when a goat came by and looked down.
"Is the water good?" asked the goat.
"The best I have ever tasted," said the fox. "Come down and see."
The goat jumped in. The fox climbed onto the goat's back, sprang out, and trotted off.
"Wait!" called the goat. "How do I get out?"
"You should have thought about that," said the fox, "before you jumped."
1. How is the goat's fate different from Anansi's?
2. How is the fox like Anansi?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.
The Last Letter
Every Thursday for six years, Mr Ellis posted a letter to his sister in Canada.
Then the letters started coming back. Address unknown.
He kept writing them anyway. He put them in a shoebox instead of the postbox.
When his neighbour Ada asked why, he said, "Because the day I stop writing is the day she is really gone."
Ada went home and looked up the town on a map. It took her three weeks and eleven phone calls to find the new address.
The shoebox held ninety-two letters. They posted them all on the same day.
1. How is this story's ending different from "The Violin in the Loft"?
2. How is Ada like Great-Aunt Sylvie?
LessonPrint · RL.3.9 · Set 8 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Same Author, Same Characters
Set 8. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. The goat is trapped by trusting somebody else; Anansi is trapped by his own greed. 2. Both use a clever scheme to get what they want at somebody else's expense.
2.1. This one resolves — the letters go; that one closes the subject with nothing changed. 2. Both act rather than explain — Ada found the address, Sylvie held the violin and asked for potatoes.
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to RL.3.9 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.