Printable Telling Time Worksheets

Printable telling time worksheets for 1st through 4th grade, with an answer key on every sheet. The sets below cover 5 different skills, so you can start where your child actually is. Available as visual guides and matching.

Targeted Practice by Skill

About Telling Time

What this skill is

Telling time guides students to read analog clocks (hour hand and minute hand) and digital clocks to the hour, half-hour, quarter-hour, and nearest minute.

When children learn it

Telling time is taught in 1st through 3rd grade, aligned to Common Core standards 1.MD.B.3, 2.MD.C.7, and 3.MD.A.1.

Teaching Tips

  • Color code hour hand short and red, minute hand long and blue.
  • Remember that the hour hand belongs to the number it just passed.

Common Mistakes

  • Confusing the short hour hand with the long minute hand.
  • Misreading hour when minute hand passes 6 (thinking 10:50 is 11:50).