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Spoken and Written English is a free printable Grade 3 English worksheet on recognizing where the two differ, aligned to Common Core standard L.3.3. 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 students 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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Spoken and Written English

L.3.3

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1.Which would you write in a letter to a museum, not just say to a friend?
  • A.Thanks, the fossils were cool!
  • B.Fossils, yeah, great.
  • C.Thank you for showing our class the fossils.
2.You are writing dialogue. Should it sound like speech or like a report?
  • A.Neither
  • B.Like speech, because that is what it is
  • C.Like a report, always
3.Which sentence would you say aloud but not write in a report?
  • A.The journey was six thousand miles.
  • B.It was, like, really far.
  • C.The journey was very long.
4.A speaker can repeat a word to stress it. What does a writer often do instead?
  • A.Write the word ten times
  • B.Choose a stronger word or add punctuation
  • C.Leave the word out
5.Which is more likely in a written report than in speech?
  • A.Long river, that.
  • B.The river's, like, really long, you know?
  • C.The river is about forty miles long.
6.In speech you can stop halfway and start again. Which is the written version of "I went, well, we went to the pool"?
  • A.Pool went we.
  • B.I went, well, we went.
  • C.We went to the pool.
7.Which shows a difference between spoken and written English?
  • A.Speech always uses longer words
  • B.Writing is always shorter
  • C.Speech can be unfinished; writing usually has to be complete
8.Why does written English need end marks when speech does not?
  • A.A reader cannot hear where one sentence ends and the next begins
  • B.Speakers write end marks too
  • C.End marks make writing longer

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Answer key — Spoken and Written English

Set 13. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.Thank you for showing our class the fossils.
  2. 2.Like speech, because that is what it is
  3. 3.It was, like, really far.
  4. 4.Choose a stronger word or add punctuation
  5. 5.The river is about forty miles long.
  6. 6.We went to the pool.
  7. 7.Speech can be unfinished; writing usually has to be complete
  8. 8.A reader cannot hear where one sentence ends and the next begins

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to L.3.3 of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts.