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The Lost Echo: Two Versions

Read two original versions of a story about a lost echo, then compare and contrast their characters, settings, helpers and endings.

Grade 2ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toRL.2.9

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1 Common Core standard
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9 questions
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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 2
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students compare the characters and settings in two versions of the same story.
Students tell what is the same and what is different in two versions of a story.
Students find the message that both versions share.

How to use

Read both versions aloud, one after the other. Then have students look back at each version as they sort and answer, and talk about what the authors changed.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

RL.2.9

Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story written by different authors or coming from different cultures.

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The Lost Echo: Two Versions

Compare and contrast two versions of the same story.

Read the two versions

Two authors each wrote their own version of the same story. Read both versions.

Version A, written by Meera Joshi

The Echo in the Canyon

High in the mountains lived a girl named Sunita. Every morning she shouted across the canyon, and her echo shouted back. One morning, nothing came back. Sunita climbed to the top of the cliff and found the echo shivering in a dark cave. Thunder had frightened it the night before.

"Come out," Sunita said softly. "I will sing you a song." She sat by the cave and sang a gentle tune about the sunrise. Slowly, the echo came out and sang the tune back to her. From then on, Sunita sang to the canyon each morning, and her echo sang along.

Version B, written by Kofi Adu

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