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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.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
2.Which sentence is written in complete form?
  • A.The crow dropped forty pebbles into the pitcher.
  • B.Dropped forty pebbles.
  • C.Forty pebbles, the crow.
3.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.
4.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.
5.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.
6.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.
7.Which sentence belongs in a school report?
  • A.Super quick, those guys.
  • B.They legged it down there dead fast.
  • C.The volunteers reached the station within six minutes.
8.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.

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Answer key — Choose the Right Register

Set 25. Prints on its own sheet.

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

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