Year 5 Active and Passive Voice Variety Pack | 2 English Units

Teach Year 5 active and passive voice with two distinct, complete English units. This variety pack combines editable teaching presentations and quizzes with printable displays, reference cards, games, scaffolded worksheets, answers, assessments and rubrics.

Both units develop subject–verb–object understanding, accurate sentence transformation and deliberate choices about emphasis. Their activities and assessment contexts differ, making the pack useful for core teaching, additional modelling, intervention, revision or extension.

WHAT IS INCLUDED

Unit 1: Active and Passive Voice

• 23-page printable unit plan, 17-slide editable teaching presentation and 22-slide editable quiz.
• Active and Passive Voice display and Voice Check Reference.
• Voice Sort Cards, Voice Detective Trail and Voice Detective Cards.
• Six worksheets with matching answers: SVO Voice Detective, Active or Passive?, Switching Voices, Object Check Lab, Which Voice Is Which? and Riddle of the Missing Voice.
• Two-page Voice Editor Assessment, answer pages and a five-level rubric.

Unit 2: Active and Passive Voice in Writing

• A separate 26-page printable unit plan, 25-slide editable teaching presentation and 22-slide editable quiz.
• Classroom display and two A5 Student Quick-Reference Cards on one cut-apart sheet.
• Voice Race Board and Voice Detective Sort Mat and Sentence Cards, with an answer guide.
• Five scaffolded worksheet sequences with answers, including Sentence Structure Spotlight, Voice Detective, Active to Passive Workshop, Passive to Active Workshop and Writer's Choice. The two transformation workshops include core and extension tasks.
• Two-page Community Newsroom Challenge assessment, answer pages and a five-level rubric.

Across the pack: two PDF unit plans with 49 printable pages and four editable PowerPoint files with 86 slides — 135 pages/slides in total. Each quiz includes ten question-and-answer pairs. The combined 98-page preview preserves every page of both supplied component previews.

LEARNING FOCUS

• Identify subjects, verb groups, objects and receivers.
• Distinguish active and passive voice and recognise passive verb phrases.
• Transform sentences while preserving tense and meaning.
• Understand helper verbs, by-phrases and optional agents.
• Explain how voice changes focus and select the best construction for a writing purpose.

CLASSROOM USE

Use the editable slides for explicit teaching, games for collaborative rehearsal, worksheets for guided or independent practice, and the two assessments for purposeful grammar application. Each component has its own suggested 5–7-lesson sequence that can be adapted to class needs.

PRODUCT DETAILS

Year level: Year 5. Subject: English — grammar and writing.

Formats: printable PDF and editable Microsoft PowerPoint PPTX.

Worksheet and assessment answers, quiz answer slides and rubrics are included.

CURRICULUM ALIGNMENT

Curriculum references for the first Active and Passive Voice component:

Australian Curriculum v9.0

AC9E5LA05, AC9E5LA06

Australian Curriculum v8.4

ACELA1507, ACELA1508

Victorian Curriculum 2.0

VC2E5LA05, VC2E5LA06

NSW English

EN3-RECOM-01

Western Australian Curriculum

WA5ELALA1, WA5ELALA2

Common Core State Standards

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.1.a, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.1.b, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.1.c, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.1.d, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.2.a, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.3.a, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.4.a, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.5.c, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.1.b, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.1.c, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.2.b, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.2.c, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.2.d, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3.d

England National Curriculum

UK-UKS2-ENG-W-V, UK-UKS2-ENG-W-C

New Zealand Curriculum

NZ-Y5-ENG-W-C-SSP-1, NZ-Y6-ENG-W-C-SSP-1, NZ-Y5-ENG-W-C-SSP-2, NZ-Y6-ENG-W-C-SSP-2, NZ-Y5-ENG-W-C-SSP-4, NZ-Y6-ENG-W-C-SSP-4

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills

TEKS-ELAR-G5-10E, TEKS-ELAR-G5-11D, TEKS-ELAR-G5-8C, TEKS-ELAR-G5-10C, TEKS-ELAR-G5-10D, TEKS-ELAR-G5-11B, TEKS-ELAR-G5-3C

Ontario Language Curriculum

CAN-G5-LANG-B3.1, CAN-G5-LANG-B3.2, CAN-G5-LANG-C1.5, CAN-G5-LANG-B1.5

DIGITAL RESOURCE AND LICENCE

Digital download only; no physical item is supplied. Licensed for one teacher to use with their own class. Files may not be resold, publicly shared or uploaded to a shared resource bank. Additional teachers require their own licences.