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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 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.
2.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.
3.Which sentence suits a science write-up?
  • A.The bread was a total disaster.
  • B.The dough did not rise because there was no yeast.
  • C.Bread. Flat. Bad.
4.Which opening suits a thank-you letter to a visitor?
  • A.Cheers for that.
  • B.Thanks for the chat!
  • C.Thank you for coming to speak to our class.
5.Which is too informal for a report?
  • A.The sound was very loud.
  • B.The noise measured ninety decibels.
  • C.It was mega loud.
6.You are labelling a diagram. Which fits?
  • A.Guard hairs: hollow and clear
  • B.These hairs are, like, see-through
  • C.Look at these hairs!
7.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.
8.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.

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Answer key — Choose the Right Register

Set 20. Prints on its own sheet.

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

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