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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 more likely in a written report than in speech?
  • A.The river is about forty miles long.
  • B.The river's, like, really long, you know?
  • C.Long river, that.
2.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.
3.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.
4.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.
5.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
6.A speaker can repeat a word to stress it. What does a writer often do instead?
  • A.Write the word ten times
  • B.Leave the word out
  • C.Choose a stronger word or add punctuation
7.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
8.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

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Answer key — Spoken and Written English

Set 19. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.The river is about forty miles long.
  2. 2."Hang on, wait for me!" called Leo.
  3. 3.We went to the pool.
  4. 4.Thank you for showing our class the fossils.
  5. 5.A listener can see what the speaker points at; a reader cannot
  6. 6.Choose a stronger word or add punctuation
  7. 7.Like speech, because that is what it is
  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.