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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 letter to a newspaper?
  • A.Trees are well good.
  • B.Plant trees. Obviously.
  • C.I believe the council should plant more trees.
2.Which sentence belongs in a school report?
  • A.The volunteers reached the station within six minutes.
  • B.They legged it down there dead fast.
  • C.Super quick, those guys.
3.Which is too informal for a report?
  • A.The noise measured ninety decibels.
  • B.The sound was very loud.
  • C.It was mega loud.
4.Which belongs in a note to your brother?
  • A.I shall return at seventeen hundred hours.
  • B.Be advised that bread is available.
  • C.Back at five — there's bread in the tin.
5.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.
6.Which sentence would you use in a story, not a report?
  • A.Glass melts at a lower temperature as cullet.
  • B.Ada wanted to throw the bowl across the kitchen.
  • C.Yeast is needed for dough to rise.
7.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
8.Which sentence is written in complete form?
  • A.The crow dropped forty pebbles into the pitcher.
  • B.Forty pebbles, the crow.
  • C.Dropped forty pebbles.

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Answer key — Choose the Right Register

Set 22. Prints on its own sheet.

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