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Pearson

The Passive

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
What happens when a painting is stolen? A presentation themed after Edvard Munch's The Scream is a great way to introduce the passive voice to your class. 
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Curated OER

The Passive Voice with se

For Students 8th - 10th
Are your Spanish speakers learning about the passive voice? They need this helpful reference tool! These examples will surely help with their sentence construction. 
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BW Walch

Daily Warm-Ups: Grammar and Usage

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
If grammar practice is anywhere in your curriculum, you must check out an extensive collection of warm-up activities for language arts! Each page focuses on a different concept, from parts of speech to verbals, and provides review...
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University of Delaware

Active and Passive Voice

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
Here's a handout that not only explains the difference between active and passive voice and when each form should be used, but also provides a practice exercise as well.
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Curated OER

The Passive

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This 76-slide presentation on passive forms, passive verbs, and passive tenses is meant to give students a lot of practice in this important area of literacy. There are dozens of examples for students to consider, and an interactive...
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Curated OER

Changing Verb Voice (Active/Passive) Practice

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this active voice and passive voice practice worksheet, students read an informative lesson. Students then respond to 5 questions that require them to identify the voice the sentences are written in and rewrite them in the opposite...
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Curated OER

Voice and James Joyce

For Teachers 6th - 10th
After reading a text written by James Joyce, middle and high schoolers find examples of passive voice. They share their findings with the class. Use this lesson to emphasize the effect of passive voice in writing.
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Estrella Mountain Community College

Active and Passive Voice

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Adult language learners will benefit from this 20-slide presentation about active and passive voice constructions. Learners craft active and passive voice questions in the simple present and simple past tenses.
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K20 LEARN

Active Or Passive?—"The Monkey's Paw": Grammar/Language Usage

For Teachers 7th - 8th Standards
Don't you wish you could use passive voice? Be careful what you wish for! "The Monkey's Paw" is the focus of a grammar and language usage lesson about active and passive voice. Readers identify examples of active and passive voice in...
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Curated OER

Changing from Active to Passive-Transforming Amsterdam

For Students 7th - 10th
In this active voice and passive voice worksheet, students respond to 10 questions that require them to change the sentences from active voice to passive voice.
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Curated OER

Changing Passive to Active

For Students 4th - 6th
In this changing passive to active voice worksheet, students rewrite the sentences without changing the verb tenses. Students rewrite ten sentences.
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Curated OER

Writing An Article Lesson Plan

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Review active and passive voice with young writers. They will use the passive voice to write persuasive articles encouraging healthy diets. The activity includes brainstorming activities for the writing, as well as a homework extension...
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Curated OER

Tenses and Conjugation

For Students 7th - 8th
Present, past, future, present perfect, past perfect, and future perfect. Past, active, indicative. Need a worksheet that not only defines verb forms, but demonstrates how to use them? If you want a resource for class members needing...
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Verb is the Word

Passive Exercise 1

For Students 6th - 8th
Sam really likes coffee, but it's unclear whether Sam drinks the coffee or if the coffee is drunk by Sam. Move from active to passive voice in 12 sentences about Sam's coffee habits. Learners will have to change an irregular verb to the...
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Curated OER

Modals - Passive Voice

For Students 6th - 8th
In this passive voice worksheet, grammarians fill in the blank with the passive voice of the verb in the parentheses. They then change nine sentences from the active voice to the passive voice. Three exercises develop understanding for...
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Interactive
Curated OER

The Passive Voice Exercise

For Students 6th - 8th
Can your writers change a sentence from the active voice to the passive? Test them with this 12-question worksheet. Twelve short sentences are provided, and your learner must edit each so that it uses the passive voice. 
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Curated OER

The Passive/Active Form

For Students 4th - 6th
In this passive and active voice learning exercise, students rewrite 18 sentences changing the verb in each one from an active voice verb to a passive voice verb.
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Curated OER

Active Voice vs. Passive Voice

For Teachers 3rd - 11th
Can your class tell the difference between passive and active writing? Use this lesson in your writing conventions unit. The lesson prompts middle schoolers to create essays, demonstrating understanding of an active versus passive voice...
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Curated OER

Same Setting, Different Moods: Voice and Word Choice Using Lord of the Flies

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Whether it's dark, delightful, or somber, set the mood with William Golding's Lord of the Flies. High-schoolers practice descriptive writing by creating the appropriate mood for an original scene, starring one of the book's main characters.
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Curated OER

Winning "The Voice": Cloze Exercise

For Students 8th - 11th
This New York Times Learning Network exercise provides a cloze exercise along with a word bank that readers can use to complete the passage about the television show, "The Voice" and Jermaine Paul, a recent winner. Another option is to...
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Curated OER

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Poems for Two Voices

For Teachers 9th - 11th
"That man is not truly one, but truly two." The Strange Case of  Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde offers readers a change to craft a poem combining words and phrases from Robert Lewis Stevenson's novella to create a poem for two voices. The...
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Santa Clara County Office of Education

The Rainbow Fish: Activities for Parents to Do with Children at Home

For Teachers Pre-K - Higher Ed
The Rainbow Fish, Marcus Pfister's award-winning story about the joys of sharing, is the inspiration for this resource loaded with fun. Suggestions for language and language arts, math, science, and social studies activities are included...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

The Poet's Voice: Langston Hughes and You

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers complete a unit of lessons that explore the poetic voice of Langston Hughes. They define voice, read and analyze various poems by Langston Hughes, and complete journal entries for each instructional activity.
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EngageNY

Language Analysis: “I Have a Dream”

For Teachers 8th Standards
Middle schoolers look closely at Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech and use a language analysis sheet to determine if King's sentences use active or passive voice. They then move their attention back to A Mighty Long Way to...

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