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Active and Passive Voice: Finding Examples Online

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Incorporate technological fluency with a search for examples of active and passive voice in online resources. Discuss how use of active or passive voice influences mood or tone and contributes to author's purpose. List of...
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Active/Passive Voice Recognition Practice

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Practice the active and the passive voice with this worksheet. Print this sheet for your class, and they can practice identifying the verb and deciding whether the verb is in the active or passive tense. 
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Passive Voice Exercises

For Students 4th - 6th
In this passive voice online worksheet, students identify if each of 5 sentences is in the active or passive voice. They rewrite 5 sentences in the active voice and 5 more in the passive voice. They write the correct passive forms in the...
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Passive Voice Worksheet 1

For Students 8th - 10th
In this grammar activity, students identify the passive voice constructions in two paragraphs and change the passive voice sentences to active voice.
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Passive Voice

For Teachers 7th - 10th
The definition of passive voice is given along with tips to identify whether a sentence is written in this form. With one slide for the title and one for the end, the remaining four slides include the definition and a different tip on...
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Active and Passive Sentences

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Work with active and passive voice in several different sentences. Fifth graders learn the difference between active and passive voice, and change nine sentences from passive to active and vice versa. Great practice in your writing unit!
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Passive Voice and Grammar Checkers

For Students 10th - 12th
This handout gives an overview of the passive and active voices as well as pointing out that the grammar checkers in word processing programs mark sentences written in the passive voice as incorrect. While this is not an interactive...
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"Take my Advice": Poems with a Voice

For Teachers 5th - 12th Standards
Discuss the meaning of the phrase tone of voice with the class. They respond to a variety of scenarios where a particular tone would be prevalent. They then read "Mother to Son" without knowing the title and answer some questions about...
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PBS

“He Named Me Malala”: Understanding Student Activism Through Film

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Malala Yousafzai has become the face of social activism. After watching He Named Me Malala and short student-made films about what young people can do to become instruments of change, class members reflect on what it means to be an...
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Passive and Active Voice

For Teachers 4th - Higher Ed
In this grammar worksheet, students identify and define the difference between active voice and passive voice. They also indicate whether they are using the active or the passive voice in the 20 sentences listed by filling in the blank...
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Rewriting Sentences in Active Voice

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this active voice worksheet, learners rewrite a set of 7 sentences in the active voice. A web site for additional resources is given.
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Handout
San José State University

Old Information Before New Information

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
Help your writers streamline their sentence structure with this handout. This resource provides information about sentence organization including definitions and models of the active voice and the passive voice. In addition to reading...
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Verb is the Word

Passive Exercise 2

For Students 6th - 8th
Learning the difference between the active voice and passive voice can be difficult. Help your pupils along with a practice exercise. Learners must translate nine active sentences covering a variety of topics into the passive voice. The...
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Voices In the Park

For Teachers 1st - 6th Standards
Explore the impact a narrator's point of view has on a story with a reading of the children's book, Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne. Written in four different voices, the story is told and retold from different perspectives to...
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Passive Voice

For Teachers 6th - 9th
What is the passive voice, and can you identify it easily? Help your class get a better grip on the passive and active voices with this very short presentation. Five slides present the difference between the two voices, and several...
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Lesson: Emory Douglas: Art and Activism

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Visual literacy can be experienced in many different ways. Learners discuss the times, graphic art, and cultural significance of activism in art as they explore artist and Black Panther, Emory Douglas. This is a discussion-based lesson...
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Eliminating Wordiness

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Teach your class how to write concisely and edit writing. The slide show covers be verbs, active voice, passive voice, repetitive wording, and more. Complete with numerous examples and images, it is a comprehensive resource that could be...
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Active Voice and Passive Voice

For Students 4th - 6th
In this identifying active voice and passive voice worksheet, students review definitions and examples, label sentences, and rewrite sentences changing the voice from passive to active. Students write seven answers.
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The Passive Voice Exercise

For Students 6th - 10th
A clear example of a sentence in both active and passive voice is shown at the top of this resource and gives writers a clear example to follow. For the next 12 sentences, they change the voice from active to passive. 
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Voices of the Revolution: Challenge Activities (Theme 3)

For Teachers 5th Standards
Paul Revere, Mercy Otis Warren, James Forten, Henry Knox. The voices of the American Revolution come alive in this enrichment packet designed to challenge learners who have mastered the basic concepts in the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt...
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The Passive Voice in Questions

For Students 4th - 5th
In this recognizing the active and passive voice worksheet, students read interrogative sentences in the active voice and rewrite them in the passive voice. Students write 12 answers.
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Your Voice

For Teachers 4th - 8th
A wonderful presentation focuses on the use of one's voice. Many interesting tips show your pupils how to use their voices in certain social situations, and four activities allow everyone to take part. The presentation can facilitate...
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A Poem for Two Voices for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Poems For Two Voices are a great resource in any language arts classroom, whether you are studying poetry or not. Focusing on The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, this lesson prompts young authors to write a Poem For Two Voices...
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"Voicing" - A Believable Account with "The Glory Fields" by Walter Dean Myers

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Dr. Seuss and Walter Dean Myers team up to cover the topic of prejudice. Using The Sneeches (about the culture clash between star-bellied and bare-bellied Sneetches) and The Glory Fields (about a boy coming to America on a slave ship),...

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