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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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Tick the right answer.

1.Which sentence would you use in a story, not a report?
  • A.Glass melts at a lower temperature as cullet.
  • B.Yeast is needed for dough to rise.
  • C.Ada wanted to throw the bowl across the kitchen.
2.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.
3.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
4.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.
5.Which belongs in a note to your brother?
  • A.Back at five — there's bread in the tin.
  • B.Be advised that bread is available.
  • C.I shall return at seventeen hundred hours.
6.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.
7.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.
8.Which is too informal for a report?
  • A.The noise measured ninety decibels.
  • B.The sound was very loud.
  • C.It was mega loud.

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Answer key — Choose the Right Register

Set 8. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.Ada wanted to throw the bowl across the kitchen.
  2. 2.Thank you for coming to speak to our class.
  3. 3.Guard hairs: hollow and clear
  4. 4.I believe the council should plant more trees.
  5. 5.Back at five — there's bread in the tin.
  6. 6.The crow dropped forty pebbles into the pitcher.
  7. 7.The volunteers reached the station within six minutes.
  8. 8.It was mega loud.

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