Telling time worksheets for 1st to 3rd grade, with large clocks and color-coded hands. Start with the chart, then read clocks to the hour, half hour, quarter hour, five minutes and minute, draw the hands yourself, match times written in words, and tell a.m. from p.m.
The hour hand and the minute hand, counting minutes by 5s, and o’clock, quarter past, half past and quarter to.
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Nine clocks showing o’clock times. Write each time. Includes answer key.
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Nine clocks showing hours and half hours. Includes answer key.
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Nine clocks at :00, :15, :30 and :45. Includes answer key.
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Nine clocks to read by counting by 5s. Includes answer key.
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Nine clocks to read to the exact minute. Includes answer key.
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Nine blank clocks with times on the hour and half hour. Draw both hands. The key shows them.
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Nine blank clocks with times to five minutes. Draw both hands. The key shows them.
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Twelve times written in words, such as quarter to ten. Write each as a digital time.
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A day from midnight to midnight, ten everyday times to mark a.m. or p.m., and four clocks to read and label. Includes answer key.
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Pick the time that makes sense, number two days of events in order, and tell noon from midnight. Includes answer key.
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From the hour to elapsed time. The Telling Time Games Pack has all 29 sheets in one PDF: these three plus 26 more. See them all
Get the pack: $7In The Case of the Missing Clock, every clue is locked behind a page of telling time problems. Solve them, decode the clue and cross out drawn suspects until only the culprit is left. Grade 3, answer keys included.
Try the free mini mysterySee the full casesReading a clock is really two readings at once. The short hand gives the hour and the long hand gives the minutes, and the minutes are found by counting by 5s around numbers that say something else. On these sheets the hour hand is always orange and the minute hand always blue, so children can tell them apart before they can judge length.
The How to Tell Time chart shows a clock with the minutes printed around the outside, and the four times that have names: o’clock, quarter past, half past and quarter to. It also covers the mistake nearly every child makes: at 3:45 the hour hand is almost on the 4, but the hour is still 3.
The five reading sheets go in the order time is taught: the hour, the half hour, the quarter hour, five minutes and then the exact minute. Each has nine clocks large enough to read easily. On every clock the hour hand sits where it really would be, part of the way to the next number.
Reading is only half of it, so two sheets have children draw the hands for a given time, and one works with times written in words. For hands-on practice, print a clock face with movable hands. When telling time is secure, the elapsed time worksheets come next, and skip counting by 5s helps with the minutes.
A clock face shows 7:00 twice a day, so 2nd graders also learn a.m. and p.m. The A.M. and P.M. sheet sets out a whole day on one line, from midnight through noon to midnight, with a.m. on one side and p.m. on the other. Children then mark everyday times, such as eating lunch at 12:15, and read four clocks and say which half of the day each one is. The practice sheet asks which time makes sense, has children put a day of events in order, and settles the two times that confuse everyone: noon is 12:00 p.m. and midnight is 12:00 a.m.
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