1st Grade Telling Time

Reading a clock begins in first grade with the hour and the half hour, and these telling time worksheets for 1st grade start right there. Each page shows a friendly analog clock with an hour hand and a minute hand, and the child writes the time on the line below -- eight o'clock, half past three, and so on. Learning to notice where the short hand points, and that the long hand stands straight up at the hour and straight down at the half hour, is the heart of first-grade clock reading.

Some sheets flip the task and give a time in words, asking the child to draw the hands where they belong -- the gentle next step after reading a clock. Working both directions helps a first grader really understand the two hands rather than just memorizing a look. The clocks are large and clear, and the times stay to whole hours and half hours, exactly the grade-one range.

There are more than 20 first-grade telling time sets to work through. Print a worksheet as a PDF for math practice, print the answer key so you can check each written time in a moment, or play the same clock online where the child taps or types the time. Everything is free for everyone -- no sign-up, no subscription, and no limit on how many pages you use.