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Choose the Right Register is a free printable Grade 2 English worksheet on matching how formal a piece of writing is to its reader, aligned to Common Core standard W.2.6. It prints 8 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask 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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Choose the Right Register

W.2.6

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1.You are labelling a diagram. Which fits?
  • A.These hairs are, like, see-through
  • B.Guard hairs: hollow and clear
  • C.Look at these hairs!
2.Which sentence suits a science write-up?
  • A.The dough did not rise because there was no yeast.
  • B.The bread was a total disaster.
  • C.Bread. Flat. Bad.
3.Which belongs in a note to your brother?
  • A.Be advised that bread is available.
  • B.Back at five — there's bread in the tin.
  • C.I shall return at seventeen hundred hours.
4.Which sentence belongs in a school report?
  • A.They legged it down there dead fast.
  • B.Super quick, those guys.
  • C.The volunteers reached the station within six minutes.
5.Which sentence would you use in a story, not a report?
  • A.Ada wanted to throw the bowl across the kitchen.
  • B.Glass melts at a lower temperature as cullet.
  • C.Yeast is needed for dough to rise.
6.Why does written English tend to be more formal than talking?
  • A.Only formal words can be spelled
  • B.The reader cannot ask you what you meant
  • C.Writing has to be longer
7.Which sentence is written in complete form?
  • A.Forty pebbles, the crow.
  • B.The crow dropped forty pebbles into the pitcher.
  • C.Dropped forty pebbles.
8.Which belongs in a letter to a newspaper?
  • A.I believe the council should plant more trees.
  • B.Plant trees. Obviously.
  • C.Trees are well good.

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Answer key — Choose the Right Register

Set 10. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.Guard hairs: hollow and clear
  2. 2.The dough did not rise because there was no yeast.
  3. 3.Back at five — there's bread in the tin.
  4. 4.The volunteers reached the station within six minutes.
  5. 5.Ada wanted to throw the bowl across the kitchen.
  6. 6.The reader cannot ask you what you meant
  7. 7.The crow dropped forty pebbles into the pitcher.
  8. 8.I believe the council should plant more trees.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to W.2.6 of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts.