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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 is the written version of "Gonna be late!"?
  • A.I am going to be late.
  • B.Gonna be late!
  • C.Late gonna be.
2.Why does written English need end marks when speech does not?
  • A.End marks make writing longer
  • B.A reader cannot hear where one sentence ends and the next begins
  • C.Speakers write end marks too
3.Which would you write in a letter to a museum, not just say to a friend?
  • A.Thanks, the fossils were cool!
  • B.Thank you for showing our class the fossils.
  • C.Fossils, yeah, great.
4.Why can a speaker say "this one" when a writer cannot?
  • A.Writers are not allowed short words
  • B."This one" is spelled wrong
  • C.A listener can see what the speaker points at; a reader cannot
5.You are writing dialogue. Should it sound like speech or like a report?
  • A.Like a report, always
  • B.Neither
  • C.Like speech, because that is what it is
6.Which is spoken English, the way people really talk?
  • A.We took a wrong turn and got lost.
  • B.So, um, we sort of got lost.
  • C.The class became lost on the way.
7.In speech you can stop halfway and start again. Which is the written version of "I went, well, we went to the pool"?
  • A.I went, well, we went.
  • B.We went to the pool.
  • C.Pool went we.
8.Which shows how a person speaks in a story's dialogue?
  • A.Leo asked them to wait for him.
  • B."Hang on, wait for me!" called Leo.
  • C.Leo requested that the others wait.

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Answer key — Spoken and Written English

Set 14. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.I am going to be late.
  2. 2.A reader cannot hear where one sentence ends and the next begins
  3. 3.Thank you for showing our class the fossils.
  4. 4.A listener can see what the speaker points at; a reader cannot
  5. 5.Like speech, because that is what it is
  6. 6.So, um, we sort of got lost.
  7. 7.We went to the pool.
  8. 8."Hang on, wait for me!" called Leo.

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