Description
This interactive active and passive sort can be used as a game or fun activity.
Teaching active and passive voice can be fun! Practice recognizing active and passive voice with this interactive grammar sort. You choose if you would like this as a PDF (for printing) or a digital download. This verb voice activity is the perfect grammar game!
Students should be able to differentiate between active and passive voice before they can purposefully apply verb voice to their writing. This grammar sort is a nice alternative to the grammar worksheet.
Included in this active and passive voice sort:
PDF:
→ Interactive notebook pieces for active and passive voice on blocks. If you do NOT use interactive notebooks, simply discard these pieces.
→ 80 sentences for sorting. Students will need to cut and place each piece in the correct category.
→ An answer sheet for students to adhere the answers.
DIGITAL
→ You will receive a copy of Google Slides presentations. Students will drag and drop the active or passive pieces into the correct categories. (The digital version of this verb voice activity is pictured on the cover.) Share via email or Google Classroom.
Not sure how to use this active and passive sort?
Use grammar sorts as:
√ Part of station work.
√ A scoot activity.
√ A grammar game.
√ Part of an anchor chart.
√ Independent practice/fast finishers.
Benefits of this active and passive voice sort:
√ Lots of hands-on possibilities! Students appreciate an alternative to the grammar worksheet.
√ With EIGHTY practice sentences, you have the opportunity to use these activities in groups, partners, or as part of grammar stations.
√ Inspire conversation about grammar: What are the differences between active and passive voice concerning sentence structure? Where can we spot the differences? In what ways are writers conveying messages with verb voice?
