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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 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.
3.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.
4.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.
5.Which belongs in a letter to a newspaper?
  • A.I believe the council should plant more trees.
  • B.Plant trees. Obviously.
  • C.Trees are well good.
6.Which is too informal for a report?
  • A.It was mega loud.
  • B.The noise measured ninety decibels.
  • C.The sound was very loud.
7.Which opening suits a thank-you letter to a visitor?
  • A.Thank you for coming to speak to our class.
  • B.Cheers for that.
  • C.Thanks for the chat!
8.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!

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Answer key — Choose the Right Register

Set 7. Prints on its own sheet.

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

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