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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.Long river, that.
  • C.The river's, like, really long, you know?
2.Which is the written version of "Gonna be late!"?
  • A.I am going to be late.
  • B.Late gonna be.
  • C.Gonna be late!
3.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.
4.In speech you can stop halfway and start again. Which is the written version of "I went, well, we went to the pool"?
  • A.We went to the pool.
  • B.Pool went we.
  • C.I went, well, we went.
5.You are writing dialogue. Should it sound like speech or like a report?
  • A.Like speech, because that is what it is
  • B.Like a report, always
  • C.Neither
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.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!
8.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

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Answer key — Spoken and Written English

Set 5. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.The river is about forty miles long.
  2. 2.I am going to be late.
  3. 3.So, um, we sort of got lost.
  4. 4.We went to the pool.
  5. 5.Like speech, because that is what it is
  6. 6.Speech can be unfinished; writing usually has to be complete
  7. 7.Thank you for showing our class the fossils.
  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.