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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's, like, really long, you know?
  • B.Long river, that.
  • C.The river is about forty miles long.
2.Which is spoken English, the way people really talk?
  • A.The class became lost on the way.
  • B.We took a wrong turn and got lost.
  • C.So, um, we sort of got lost.
3.Why can a speaker say "this one" when a writer cannot?
  • A.A listener can see what the speaker points at; a reader cannot
  • B."This one" is spelled wrong
  • C.Writers are not allowed short words
4.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
5.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.
6.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.Write the word ten times
  • C.Leave the word out
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.Pool went we.
  • B.I went, well, we went.
  • C.We went to the pool.
8.Which is the written version of "Gonna be late!"?
  • A.I am going to be late.
  • B.Late gonna be.
  • C.Gonna be late!

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Answer key — Spoken and Written English

Set 21. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.The river is about forty miles long.
  2. 2.So, um, we sort of got lost.
  3. 3.A listener can see what the speaker points at; a reader cannot
  4. 4.Like speech, because that is what it is
  5. 5.Thank you for showing our class the fossils.
  6. 6.Choose a stronger word or add punctuation
  7. 7.We went to the pool.
  8. 8.I am going to be late.

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