Grade 2 Telling Time Worksheets: Read the Clock to Five Minutes and Quarter Hours

These Grade 2 telling time worksheets ask a child to read an analog clock to the nearest five minutes, the step up from the hour and half hour. Each clock shows the hour and minute hands, and the child counts the minute marks by fives — five, ten, fifteen — to write a time such as 'ten past four' or '3:25'. Several pages focus on the quarter hours, where the child learns that quarter past sits at fifteen minutes and quarter to sits at forty-five. Other sheets pair an analog clock with a digital readout so the child matches the two ways of showing the very same moment. Counting around the face in fives, keeping track of which hand is which, and reading both past-the-hour and to-the-hour language are exactly the skills a second grader is building. The clocks stay large and the numbers stay clear, so a child can slow down on the tricky in-between times and check the count one mark at a time.

This set works in five-minute steps and the quarter hours, so the times are richer than first grade without jumping to every single minute. A child reads a clock and writes the time, or reads a written time and circles the clock that matches it. Skip-counting by five around the dial is the quiet engine here — once that feels steady, the minute hand stops being a mystery and the in-between times come into focus.

When your child can read to five minutes and name the quarter hours, you can print more of these worksheets as a PDF and keep practising on paper. It is all free, with no sign-up and no account. There are no timers and no scores, so there is no pressure on a slower count — a missed mark is just one more trip around the dial. Ready for the next step? The Grade 3 telling time worksheets read to the single minute and work with elapsed time, and you can browse every printable time worksheet to pick the right page next.