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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.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
3.Which is more likely in a written report than in speech?
  • A.Long river, that.
  • B.The river is about forty miles long.
  • C.The river's, like, really long, you know?
4.Why does written English need end marks when speech does not?
  • A.Speakers write end marks too
  • B.A reader cannot hear where one sentence ends and the next begins
  • C.End marks make writing longer
5.Why can a speaker say "this one" when a writer cannot?
  • A."This one" is spelled wrong
  • B.A listener can see what the speaker points at; a reader cannot
  • C.Writers are not allowed short words
6.Which is spoken English, the way people really talk?
  • A.So, um, we sort of got lost.
  • B.The class became lost on the way.
  • C.We took a wrong turn and got lost.
7.Which shows a difference between spoken and written English?
  • A.Speech always uses longer words
  • B.Writing is always shorter
  • C.Speech can be unfinished; writing usually has to be complete
8.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

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Answer key — Spoken and Written English

Set 9. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.Thank you for showing our class the fossils.
  2. 2.Choose a stronger word or add punctuation
  3. 3.The river is about forty miles long.
  4. 4.A reader cannot hear where one sentence ends and the next begins
  5. 5.A listener can see what the speaker points at; a reader cannot
  6. 6.So, um, we sort of got lost.
  7. 7.Speech can be unfinished; writing usually has to be complete
  8. 8.Like speech, because that is what it is

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