Verbals, Voice and Mood

Teach verbals, voice, and mood with this engaging, student-centered, standards-aligned unit. We’ve spent years refining the way we teach these grammar topics in our middle school classrooms and learned teaching grammar is a balance between introducing new concepts at a level most middle school students can grasp (without overwhelming them) while reinforcing their understanding of the fundamentals. Through the years, we have learned that when we get this balance right, grammar study really helps our students become knowledgeable, confident, and successful writers. (It can also be enjoyable!) This resource helps students understand gerunds, infinitives and participles, passive and active voice as well as the various verb moods.

INSIDE THIS RESOURCE, YOU WILL FIND…

• A List of Standards/Learning Objectives
• Teacher Background Information Pages for all Concepts
• Student Reference Sheet
• A 15-Slide Review Lesson Presentation on Verbs, Subjects, and Predicates
• An Engaging, Editable, 20-Slide Presentation Covering:
• gerunds, adjectival participles, and infinitives
• passive and active voice
• five verb moods
• 15 Printable Student Practice Pages
• 5 Review quizzes
• End-of-Unit Assessment in Print and Google™ form Versions
• Answer Keys
• Links to Presentations and Digital Assessments

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