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Changing Passive to Active

For Students 6th - 8th
Getting tired of reading student papers that are written in the passive voice? Help to make your young writers aware of their writing voice in this active and passive voice worksheet. They convert ten passive voice sentences to active...
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Passive Voice

For Students 5th - 8th
Are you looking for a warm-up activity or quiz about passive and active voice? Use this passive voice practice learning exercise, in which students rewrite the ten active voice sentences to passive voice sentences. The activity would be...
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Active/Passive Voice

For Students 5th - 8th
Reinforce your lesson on passive and active voice with this grammar worksheet. Young grammarians review examples of active and passive voice, and then determine which voice is used in a set of ten sentences. Next, students rewrite...
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Passive Voice Exercises

For Students 4th - 6th
For 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...
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Passive Voice Worksheet 1

For Students 8th - 10th
For this grammar worksheet, students identify the passive voice constructions in two paragraphs and change the passive voice sentences to active voice.
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Using Active Voice vs. Passive Verse in Writing

For Students 6th - 8th
Need an active voice exercise? Learners rewrite a series of sentences to ensure that the subject of the sentence is doing the action. Beware the typos, especially in the title.
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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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Examining Letters to the Editor

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students write letters to the editor. In this written communication lesson, students read sample letters to the editor and use the active voice to compose letters to the editor about issues in which they are interested.
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Letter of Complaint

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students compose letters of complaint. In this written communication lesson plan, students read sample letters of complaint and use the provided graphic organizer to analyze them.
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Examining Letters to the Editor

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students write letters to the editor. In this written communication lesson, students read sample letters to the editor and use the active voice to compose letters to the editor about issues they are interested in.
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Letter of Complaint

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students write letters of complaint. In this written communication lesson plan, students use the active voice to compose letters of complaint to selected audiences. 
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Passive or Active Exercises

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this active and passive voice worksheet, students choose which voice the sentences are in. Students complete 21 problems total.
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Active and Passive Voice Exercise

For Students Pre-K - 6th
In this English instructional activity, students change passive sentences into active sentences. If there is not a noun assigned to the action the students choose one.
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Active or Passive

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this active and passive voice instructional activity, students write sentences and choose the correct tense for the active and passive voice. Students complete 3 activities total.
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English Exercises: Passive Voice

For Students 6th
In this passive voice activity, 6th graders read the explanation and examples, then rewrite 10 sentences and identify which of the 4 cases it represents, with immediate online feedback.
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Passive Voice

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this passive voice learning exercise, students read 7 sentences and rewrite each of them in the passive voice.
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Rewriting Sentences in Active Voice

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this active voice worksheet, students rewrite a set of 7 sentences in the active voice. A web site for additional resources is given.
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Active or Passive Voice

For Students 5th - 9th
In this online interactive ESL worksheet, students respond to 10 multiple choice questions regarding active and passive voice. Students may check their answers with the click of the mouse.
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A Thanksgiving Story

For Students 6th - 8th
In this active and passive voice instructional activity, students read a paragraph regarding Thanksgiving and then rewrite five of the sentences in passive voice.
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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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Changing Verb Voice (Active/Passive) Practice

For Teachers 6th - 8th
For 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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The Passive/Active Form

For Students 4th - 6th
In this passive and active voice worksheet, students rewrite 18 sentences changing the verb in each one from an active voice verb to a passive voice verb.
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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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Active Voice and Passive Voice

For Teachers 4th - 5th
For this verb voice worksheet, students identify active voice verbs and passive voice verbs. Students answer fill in the blank questions and rewrite sentences using a specific voice.