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Skills Covered

  • Read analog clocks to the nearest 5 minutes
  • Write times in standard format (e.g., 4:25)
  • Skip count by 5s around the clock
  • Identify hour and minute hand positions
  • Understand minute intervals on a clock face
  • Build fluency reading detailed clock times

How to Use These Worksheets

Students read each analog clock and write the time to the nearest 5 minutes.

In the Classroom

Connect to skip counting by 5s. Have students count aloud by 5s from 12 around the clock before writing each answer.

At Home

Practice throughout the day by reading wall clocks. Ask your child to tell you the time whenever they walk past a clock.

Tips for Success

  • Count by 5s from the 12 to find the minutes
  • Read the hour hand first, then count minutes
  • If the minute hand is past 6, the hour is the number before where the hour hand points
  • Use the answer key for self-checking

Common Core Standards Alignment

These worksheets support the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:

  • 2.MD.C.7 — Tell and write time to the nearest five minutes using a.m. and p.m.
  • 1.MD.B.3 — Tell and write time in hours and half-hours

Telling Time to 5 Minutes

1st — 2nd 6 worksheets

Read the analog clock and write the time shown. Practice telling time to the nearest 5 minutes with minute and hour tick marks.

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What’s Included

  • 6 unique telling time worksheets
  • Times to the nearest 5 minutes
  • Detailed clock faces with minute tick marks
  • 6 problems per page
  • Answer keys included