Easy Tips to Teach Your Kids Active and Passive Voice

Many kids do not understand the concept of active and passive voice. They find it difficult to learn and take it as a challenge that cannot be passed.

However, this concept can be taught to kids easily with the right approach and techniques. 

In this article, I will tell you some easy tips that will help you teach your kids active and passive voice. Keep reading with your undivided attention to learn more.

5 Ways to Teach Your Kids Active and Passive Voice

Here are five simple ways to teach your kids about active and passive voice, using examples, visuals, games, and interactive tools.

Use Simple and Relatable Examples

The first step when you are teaching active and passive voice to your child is to give them examples that are easy to understand. The best way is to start with an example of things your kids already know. You can give them examples of their favorite animal, food, or any person in terms of active and passive voice. It will make the examples relatable and easy for the child to understand.

Let’s say the favorite animal of your child is a cat, so make examples of things that your cat often does.

For example, the cat loves to play with the ball, so some relatable examples can be made as I have made below.

Example 1: Active voice

The cat chased the ball.

If we look at this example, “cat” is the subject, and “chased” is the action. The cat is doing the action whereas the ball is an object on which the action is performed.

Example 2: Passive voice

The ball was chased by the cat.

In this sentence, the ball becomes the subject, whereas the action is still the same, but the focus is directed to the ball instead of the cat.

With the use of simple examples that your kids are familiar with, it becomes easier for kids to understand the difference between active and passive voice.

Create Visual Aids

Another way to make this English concept easier for your little ones is the creation of visual aids for them. Visual aids do not only refer to the creation of videos and movies to portray the concept. Drawing images also comes within the visual boundaries.

Let's take the same sentence as the example again for a clear understanding of the creation of visual aids.

The cat chased the ball is the sentence in active voice. You can draw the image of a cat and ball with arrows referring to what is happening in the drawing for both active and passive voice. This practice will help the kids to get the exact concept of what is being taught to them.

This practice will help them to gain an idea of how the subject changes in active and passive voice.

Play Relevant Games

There is a chance the kids might find the lesson boring and therefore let things go over their heads. If you turn these lessons into relevant games and fun activities, kids are more likely to engage and remember things for longer.

Easy and childish games like sentence flip games, active/passive bingo, and matching games will help kids enjoy and take classes as fun while learning new things every day.

These games are explained below.

Active/passive bingo:  A bingo game can be made, and sentences should be called aloud, and students will write on their cards whether they are active or passive.

Sentence Flip games: Simple active sentences are to be written on the cards, and the kids flip the card and turn it into the passive voice.

Matching game: A set of cards can be created with active voice sentences, and another sentence is to be created with passive voice, and the kids will match the pair.

These games will help kids enjoy the lessons while reinforcing their concept of active and passive voice.

Engage In Everyday Active-Passive Language Practices

If you feel it is hard to take time to prepare games, you can start to communicate with your kids in an active voice and ask them to respond in an active voice. It becomes easy for guardians as they have to take out little time for this from their busy schedules.

For example, if you are cleaning the terrace, you can say, “I am cleaning the terrace,” and then ask the kids to change the sentence into passive voice, or it can be done vice versa as well.

The consistent use of active and passive voices in regular conversations will help kids practice and become comfortable with different sentence structures.

Use Active to Passive Converter 

An active-to-passive converter tool is also a great option for kids to learn active and passive voice or vice versa. 

We tried the navigation of the Active Passive Voice converter by EditPad, which is quite simple. The child types the sentence on the tool, and the voice changes from active to passive or vice versa instantly. The tool provides instant feedback, which helps kids to practice and learn in an interactive way.

I have mentioned some features of the tool below. Have a look and see how remarkable the tool is:

• User-friendly design
• Automatic recognition of sentence elements
• Instant feedback and correction

The use of this tool is also more likely to help the kids to learn the concepts faster and remember them for a long time as they see the changes in the sentences in real time.

Final Talk

With the use of simple examples, visual aids, fun games, and everyday conversations, learning active and passive voice can become an enjoyable and easy process.

Tools like Active to Passive Converter help kids practice and understand how sentences change in real-time.

With regular practice and the right approach, the kids will soon feel confident using both active and passive voices in their writing and speaking.