Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: The Passive Voice

9th - 10th
This screencast [2:25] defines passive voice, offers reasons for its use, explains how to write using it, and provides examples throughout. It also offers links to more information about passive voice.
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: The Passive Voice vs the Active Voice

9th - 10th Standards
This screencast focuses on voice including the difference between active and passive voice, why active voice is preferred, and when it is acceptable to use passive voice. Links to more resources are also provided. Real Player is required
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Emphasis: Using the Passive Voice: Lesson 2

9th - 10th Standards
The lesson discusses the passive voice. This lesson is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Emphasis: Using the Passive Voice." [3:53]
Instructional Video
Yossarian the Grammarian

Yossarian the Grammarian: Errors Involving Participial Phrases: Part Ii

9th - 10th
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian demonstrates how to fix sentence errors that involve particpial phrases which incorporate the passive voice.
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Passive and Active Voice

9th - 10th Standards
A screencast lesson defining active and passive voice, demonstrating how to construct a sentence in passive voice, and explaining when using passive voice is appropriate. [16:14]
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Passive and Active Voice

9th - 10th Standards
An animated video lesson followed by notes and additional examples demonstrating how to write in the passive voice and when it would be appropriate to do so. [5:09]
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Using Strong Verbs

9th - 10th Standards
A video lesson defining a strong verb and explaining how to create strong verbs within a written text by changing passive voice to active voice, eliminating unnecessary qualifiers, and reducing phrases to a single word. [7:24]
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: The Passive Voice vs. the Active Voice: Lesson 2

9th - 10th Standards
A slideshow comparing passive active voice and discussing when each is appropriate. It is 2 of 5 in the series titled "The Passive Voice vs. the Active Voice."
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: The Passive Voice vs. the Active Voice: Lesson 5

9th - 10th Standards
A video lesson explaining the difference between active and passive voice. It is 5 of 5 in the series titled "The Passive Voice vs. the Active Voice." [5:16]
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Making the Passive Voice Active

9th - 10th Standards
This lesson explains how to change a sentence from the passive voice to the active voice. [8:25]