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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.Which opening suits a thank-you letter to a visitor?
  • A.Thank you for coming to speak to our class.
  • B.Cheers for that.
  • C.Thanks for the chat!
2.Which belongs in a note to your brother?
  • A.Back at five — there's bread in the tin.
  • B.Be advised that bread is available.
  • C.I shall return at seventeen hundred hours.
3.Which belongs in a letter to a newspaper?
  • A.Plant trees. Obviously.
  • B.I believe the council should plant more trees.
  • C.Trees are well good.
4.Which sentence belongs in a school report?
  • A.They legged it down there dead fast.
  • B.The volunteers reached the station within six minutes.
  • C.Super quick, those guys.
5.You are labelling a diagram. Which fits?
  • A.Look at these hairs!
  • B.Guard hairs: hollow and clear
  • C.These hairs are, like, see-through
6.Why does written English tend to be more formal than talking?
  • A.Writing has to be longer
  • B.Only formal words can be spelled
  • C.The reader cannot ask you what you meant
7.Which sentence is written in complete form?
  • A.Dropped forty pebbles.
  • B.Forty pebbles, the crow.
  • C.The crow dropped forty pebbles into the pitcher.
8.Which is too informal for a report?
  • A.The sound was very loud.
  • B.It was mega loud.
  • C.The noise measured ninety decibels.

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Answer key — Choose the Right Register

Set 16. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.Thank you for coming to speak to our class.
  2. 2.Back at five — there's bread in the tin.
  3. 3.I believe the council should plant more trees.
  4. 4.The volunteers reached the station within six minutes.
  5. 5.Guard hairs: hollow and clear
  6. 6.The reader cannot ask you what you meant
  7. 7.The crow dropped forty pebbles into the pitcher.
  8. 8.It was mega loud.

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