Year 6 · English

Passive Verb Awareness

Year 6 learners practise active and passive voice.

The activities include Identify Active and Passive Sentences, Practise Changing Sentences from Active to Passive, Recognise Active and Passive Sentences, and related practice. The checked support below includes teaching, lesson, video, worksheet. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

Identify Active and Passive Sentences
Practise Changing Sentences from Active to Passive
Recognise Active and Passive Sentences
Understand How to Change Sentences into the Passive Structure
Understand the Impersonal Voice
Understand the Passive and Active Voice

Checked learning resources

Oak: Three tense forms, modality, active voice and passive voice

Oak National Academy · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

Oak Year 6/KS2 unit linked to active and passive voice.
BBC Bitesize: Grammar

BBC Bitesize · Teaching · Opens on the provider website

BBC KS2 Grammar support for active and passive voice.
Twinkl: New Planit Y6 Spag Lesson Pack Using The Passive

Twinkl · Lesson · Opens on the provider website

Twinkl Year 6 resource linked to active and passive voice.
Active or Passive? | KS2 English Concept Video

Twinkl · Video · Account may be required

Models how to recognise and use active and passive voice in KS2 sentences. The video models how to identify passive constructions, which are the grammatical basis of the impersonal voice in the worksheet.
Using the active and passive voice

Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

Year 6 Oak learner lesson explains and models how to recognise active and passive constructions and change sentences between both voices.
Year 6 Impersonal Voice Home-Learning Lesson

Moorside Schools · Lesson · Opens on the provider website

Verified free Year 6 lesson teaching impersonal passive voice for formal writing, including constructions such as 'It is said that', 'It is thought that' and 'It is believed that', followed by sentence practice.
Three tense forms, modality, active voice and passive voice

Oak National Academy · Lesson · Opens on the provider website

Year 6 English resource matched to active and passive voice.
Identifying The Active And Passive Voice

Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

Oak lesson video titled Identifying The Active And Passive Voice.