Description
Teach your students essential grammar and writing skills with this focused active and passive voice lesson. Designed for middle school and high school ELA classrooms, this resource helps students understand how verb voice affects clarity, tone, and meaning in writing.
Students begin with a clear PowerPoint lesson that explains what verb voice is and how to identify whether a sentence is written in active voice or passive voice. Through direct instruction and examples, students learn when active voice is preferred and when passive voice may be appropriate, strengthening both their reading comprehension and writing decisions.
To support engagement and retention, students complete a guided notes worksheet while following along with the lesson. Instruction also focuses on helping students revise sentences, showing how to change passive constructions into active voice for stronger, clearer writing.
Students further develop their skills by learning how to identify shifts in verb voice and correct inappropriate shifts, an important concept for formal and academic writing. This lesson reinforces editing skills, sentence fluency, and grammar accuracy.
This active and passive voice grammar lesson is ideal for grammar units, writing workshops, test preparation, or skill-based ELA instruction focused on sentence structure and revision.