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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.Thank you for showing our class the fossils.
  • B.Fossils, yeah, great.
  • C.Thanks, the fossils were cool!
2.Why does written English need end marks when speech does not?
  • A.End marks make writing longer
  • B.Speakers write end marks too
  • C.A reader cannot hear where one sentence ends and the next begins
3.Which sentence would you say aloud but not write in a report?
  • A.It was, like, really far.
  • B.The journey was six thousand miles.
  • C.The journey was very long.
4.A speaker can repeat a word to stress it. What does a writer often do instead?
  • A.Choose a stronger word or add punctuation
  • B.Leave the word out
  • C.Write the word ten times
5.Which shows how a person speaks in a story's dialogue?
  • A.Leo requested that the others wait.
  • B.Leo asked them to wait for him.
  • C."Hang on, wait for me!" called Leo.
6.Which shows a difference between spoken and written English?
  • A.Writing is always shorter
  • B.Speech can be unfinished; writing usually has to be complete
  • C.Speech always uses longer words
7.You are writing dialogue. Should it sound like speech or like a report?
  • A.Like speech, because that is what it is
  • B.Neither
  • C.Like a report, always
8.Which is spoken English, the way people really talk?
  • A.The class became lost on the way.
  • B.So, um, we sort of got lost.
  • C.We took a wrong turn and got lost.

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Answer key — Spoken and Written English

Set 18. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.Thank you for showing our class the fossils.
  2. 2.A reader cannot hear where one sentence ends and the next begins
  3. 3.It was, like, really far.
  4. 4.Choose a stronger word or add punctuation
  5. 5."Hang on, wait for me!" called Leo.
  6. 6.Speech can be unfinished; writing usually has to be complete
  7. 7.Like speech, because that is what it is
  8. 8.So, um, we sort of got lost.

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