Telling time worksheets
Clock worksheets at exactly the right level
Pick how precise the times should be and whether your child reads the clock or draws the hands. Every sheet is new, so there is always another one for tomorrow.
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Teach it in this order
Reading an analog clock is several skills stacked on each other. Children who struggle have usually been moved on before the layer underneath was solid. Stay on a level until it is boring, then step up.
| Level | What is new | Example |
|---|---|---|
| O'clock | The short hand names the hour; the long hand points straight up | 4:00 |
| Half past | The long hand points down, and the short hand sits between two numbers | 4:30 |
| Quarter hours | Quarter past and quarter to; the long hand at 3 and 9 | 4:15, 4:45 |
| Five minutes | Counting in fives around the face | 4:25, 4:50 |
| To the minute | Counting on from the nearest five using the small marks | 4:37 |
The mistake nearly every child makes
At 4:50 the short hand is almost touching the 5, so children read it as 5:50. The fix is one rule, repeated: the hour is the number the short hand has passed, not the one it is closest to. The clocks on these sheets place the hour hand where a real clock would, partway between numbers, so that rule gets practised.
Read first, then draw
Reading a clock is recognition. Drawing the hands is harder: the child has to decide where both hands go and make one shorter than the other. Use reading sheets until they are easy, then switch to drawing at the same level before moving up.
Off the page
Put a real analog clock where your child sees it every day, and ask the time when it matters to them: how long until a friend arrives, when the programme starts. A few of those a day does as much as any worksheet.
Five minutes on paper. Five minutes that feels like play.
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