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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.Thanks for the chat!
  • B.Thank you for coming to speak to our class.
  • C.Cheers for that.
2.Which is too informal for a report?
  • A.The sound was very loud.
  • B.It was mega loud.
  • C.The noise measured ninety decibels.
3.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
4.Which belongs in a letter to a newspaper?
  • A.Trees are well good.
  • B.Plant trees. Obviously.
  • C.I believe the council should plant more trees.
5.Why does written English tend to be more formal than talking?
  • A.The reader cannot ask you what you meant
  • B.Writing has to be longer
  • C.Only formal words can be spelled
6.Which sentence suits a science write-up?
  • A.Bread. Flat. Bad.
  • B.The bread was a total disaster.
  • C.The dough did not rise because there was no yeast.
7.Which belongs in a note to your brother?
  • A.Be advised that bread is available.
  • B.I shall return at seventeen hundred hours.
  • C.Back at five — there's bread in the tin.
8.Which sentence is written in complete form?
  • A.Dropped forty pebbles.
  • B.The crow dropped forty pebbles into the pitcher.
  • C.Forty pebbles, the crow.

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Answer key — Choose the Right Register

Set 17. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.Thank you for coming to speak to our class.
  2. 2.It was mega loud.
  3. 3.Guard hairs: hollow and clear
  4. 4.I believe the council should plant more trees.
  5. 5.The reader cannot ask you what you meant
  6. 6.The dough did not rise because there was no yeast.
  7. 7.Back at five — there's bread in the tin.
  8. 8.The crow dropped forty pebbles into the pitcher.

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