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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 sentence is written in complete form?
  • A.Forty pebbles, the crow.
  • B.Dropped forty pebbles.
  • C.The crow dropped forty pebbles into the pitcher.
2.Which sentence would you use in a story, not a report?
  • A.Yeast is needed for dough to rise.
  • B.Ada wanted to throw the bowl across the kitchen.
  • C.Glass melts at a lower temperature as cullet.
3.Which belongs in a note to your brother?
  • A.I shall return at seventeen hundred hours.
  • B.Back at five — there's bread in the tin.
  • C.Be advised that bread is available.
4.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
5.Why does written English tend to be more formal than talking?
  • A.Only formal words can be spelled
  • B.Writing has to be longer
  • C.The reader cannot ask you what you meant
6.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.
7.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.
8.Which sentence suits a science write-up?
  • A.The dough did not rise because there was no yeast.
  • B.Bread. Flat. Bad.
  • C.The bread was a total disaster.

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Answer key — Choose the Right Register

Set 24. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.The crow dropped forty pebbles into the pitcher.
  2. 2.Ada wanted to throw the bowl across the kitchen.
  3. 3.Back at five — there's bread in the tin.
  4. 4.Guard hairs: hollow and clear
  5. 5.The reader cannot ask you what you meant
  6. 6.The volunteers reached the station within six minutes.
  7. 7.I believe the council should plant more trees.
  8. 8.The dough did not rise because there was no yeast.

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