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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.Cheers for that.
  • C.Thank you for coming to speak to our class.
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.Which belongs in a letter to a newspaper?
  • A.Trees are well good.
  • B.I believe the council should plant more trees.
  • C.Plant trees. Obviously.
4.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.
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.You are labelling a diagram. Which fits?
  • A.Look at these hairs!
  • B.These hairs are, like, see-through
  • C.Guard hairs: hollow and clear
7.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.
8.Which sentence is written in complete form?
  • A.Forty pebbles, the crow.
  • B.Dropped forty pebbles.
  • C.The crow dropped forty pebbles into the pitcher.

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Answer key — Choose the Right Register

Set 19. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.Thank you for coming to speak to our class.
  2. 2.It was mega loud.
  3. 3.I believe the council should plant more trees.
  4. 4.Back at five — there's bread in the tin.
  5. 5.The reader cannot ask you what you meant
  6. 6.Guard hairs: hollow and clear
  7. 7.Ada wanted to throw the bowl across the kitchen.
  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.