{"id":5321,"date":"2025-02-23T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itslitteaching.com\/?p=5321"},"modified":"2025-02-19T12:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T17:54:08","slug":"active-and-passive-voice-worksheets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itslitteaching.com\/active-and-passive-voice-worksheets\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Active and Passive Voice Worksheets for High School"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sometimes, you just need a good old-fashioned worksheet. After all, nothing beats practice and repetition. In this post, I’m going to share active and passive voice worksheets for high school along with other resources. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you need to teach active and passive voice–and want to skip all of the prep work–you can grab my Active and Passive Voice Writing Skills Lesson right here!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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​Before Teaching Active and Passive Voice<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

​Before you begin teaching active and passive voice, make sure your students are ready to learn it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t think it matters if your students are in middle school or high school. Understanding active and passive voice has less to do with age and more to do with students being able to analyze sentence structures.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I like to cover the parts of a sentence<\/a> and independent and dependent clauses<\/a> before introducing active and passive voice. (I also like to teach verbals first. That way, students are less likely to confuse the actual verb for a verbal when writing active sentences.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If students don’t understand these basic terms and parts of sentence structure, they’re not ready for active and passive voice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How To Teach Active and Passive Voice<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Try to hook your students with an interesting pre-thinking exercise. (I share mine below in the next section.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, I recommend briefly showing the difference between active and passive voice. Use several examples, but don’t go too deep just yet. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Focus on having students find the “doer” in each sentence. Once they’ve mastered this skill, then see if they can differentiate between active and passive voice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is when active and passive voice worksheets come in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having students do some independent work in between instruction sessions will help them apply what they’re learning.<\/strong> If students only listen<\/em> to you, nothing will stick. Make sure you’re having students complete practice activities like worksheets or task cards as you go. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also like to cover active and passive voice in questions and commands. (These types of sentences can be harder to break down. Offering different sentences with challenging sentence structures can also add more rigor if you want to scaffold up for advanced or older students.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lastly, it’s important to explain to students why they should care.<\/strong> Why does it matter if their writing is in active voice? When should someone use passive voice? <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you don’t help them connect the dots and understand what a passive voice worksheet has to do with them long term, none of your lesson will stick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(If you need help laying all of this out, my Active and Passive Voice Writing Skills Lesson<\/a> includes a slideshow that covers all of this with examples.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remember, you can never give students too many examples or model writing for them too much!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Your Active and Passive Voice Lesson Plans<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My Active and Passive Voice Writing Skills Lesson includes a step-by-step lesson plan<\/a>. But generally, I always recommend the same strategy for teaching grammatical concepts: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Go slow. Use short, direct instruction. Have students practice frequently. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I like to introduce active and passive voice by just having students look at some examples of each. My Lesson<\/a> has students look at a passage that only contains passive voice sentences and asks them to make observations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe students will notice the subject of the sentence is never doing anything. Maybe they won’t. Either way, it gets students talking about the writing, word orders, and sentence structure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the first of my Active and Passive Voice Worksheets for high school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From there, I introduce active and passive voice with direct teaching. I continue to alternate direct instruction with student practice until I know students have achieved mastery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n