Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Passive and Active Voice

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on active and passive voice. Definitions, examples, and the reasons that the active voice is the preferred voice in most cases. It offers a slide show with definitions, examples, when to use, forms of passive voice...
Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Passive Voice and Vagaries

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Tips on improving writing by eliminating vague statements and using active voice instead of passive voice.
Activity
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Grammar: Try It: Voice

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a non-graded active and passive voice practice including identifying active and passive voice sentences, determining what the passive voice is doing in sentences, and changing passive to active voice.
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Giving Voice to Opposites

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this instructional activity, students will develop a narrative in opposing voices.
Handout
University of North Carolina

The Writing Center at Unc Chapel Hill: Passive Voice

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
How can you avoid the passive voice in your writing? Explore this website to learn how and why not to use this voice in your writing.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: On Track English I Writing: Editing

For Students 1st - 9th Standards
This site offers links to each section of Writing, Module 8, Lessons 1-9 and Practices 1-3. Students write legibly and use appropriate capitalization and punctuation conventions in their compositions; spell correctly; and edit drafts for...
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: I Wanna: Writing a Persuasive Letter

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, young scholars will experiment with word choice as it relates to persuasion.