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Printable Telling Time Books – Fold & Read

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Working on telling time with your learners? Then, you’ll love these printable telling time books. They’re low prep and PACKED with information about telling time!

Printable Telling Time Books - Just Fold and Read - This Reading Mama

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**The free printable telling time books download is at the END of this post. Click on the teal download button.

Learning to Use an Analogue Clock

Telling time isn’t the easiest math skill. I remember struggling to tell time with the analogue clock all the way through fourth grade myself. How’s that for being transparent?

One of the keys is to make this abstract skill as hands-on and concrete as possible. I HIGHLY recommend having individual clocks your learners can touch, feel, and explore.

Your learners might even like our Clock Playdough Mats for some hands-on fun. Learners make their own hands for the clock and they’re ready to explore!

 

Printable Telling Time Books

These simple telling time books can help as you explore telling time. There are five titles included in color AND blackline.

  1. Let’s Learn About Telling Time – This book explores the long hand and short hand and how they move around the clock.
  2. Telling Time by the Hour – Exploring the position you find the hour and minute hand when you’re telling time by the hour.
  3. Telling Time by the Half Hour – Learning why it’s called “half” hour and how to read the hour hand when it’s between two numbers.
  4. Telling Time by the Quarter Hour – Exploring why it’s called “quarter” hour and how to read the clock in 15 minute increments.
  5. Telling Time to Five Minutes – Learning how to count the minutes by 5’s to tell time to five minutes.

Just like our Fold & Read Rhyming Books and our Fold & Read American Coin Books, these are SUPER SIMPLE for learners to fold themselves.

folding the printable telling time books is easy

First learners fold the page down.

 

fold the printable telling time books just two times and they're ready to read

Then they fold them to the side. Yep, it’s just two folds and they’re ready to read.

 

telling time by the quarter hour - inside the printable book

Each book is a little bit different inside. My goal was to make the images and text easy to understand. I do not recommend using them all at one time, but rather exploring one at a time. The colors on the clock hands are wrong in the image above. They are correct in the printables.

The texts build off one another, so “Let’s Learn About Time” (the first foldable book) is the best one to start with if you’re introducing telling time.

And again, always pair them with clocks kids can touch and manipulate!

 

If you’re looking for a game to reinforce telling time, you might like my NO PREP telling time games! Learners can practice time by the hour, half hour, and quarter hour with these.

You can also find two more telling time games to the hour in my Simple Measurement Games.

 

 

 

 

Enjoy teaching!
~Becky

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Comments

  1. jj says

    March 7, 2018 at 8:28 pm

    Hi, I haven’t visited your site for some time. I resigned in but I can’t download the “B” set of the Learning the Alphabet Might be because I don’t remember the pass word what do I do?

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      March 21, 2018 at 7:01 am

      All my Learning the Alphabet sets can be accessed without a password here: https://thisreadingmama.com/free-abc-printable-packs/

      Reply
  2. Robin McDonald says

    March 11, 2018 at 12:36 pm

    Where can I access your other telling time books; by the hour, half hour, quarter hour, and 5 minutes? I LOVE these!

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      March 21, 2018 at 7:00 am

      There’s a teal download button at the end of this post. Click on it and the PDF will come up for you.

      Reply
      • Stella says

        October 21, 2019 at 2:50 pm

        Thank you

        Reply
        • thisreadingmama says

          October 21, 2019 at 3:21 pm

          You’re welcome! 🙂

          Reply
  3. Genevieve Efthemis says

    March 12, 2018 at 10:42 am

    I am starting to teach time in my afterschool program. This will be so helpful

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      March 21, 2018 at 7:01 am

      Yay! I’m so glad to hear that they will help you teach time in your after school program!

      Reply
  4. Shelley. says

    March 21, 2018 at 12:00 am

    Hi Becky, I’m a teacher in Australia and have started using interactive notebooks in the last couple of years. Your reading and telling time book is just great! I have a Year 2 class that is very low and most can’t even tell time to the hour, so I’m going back to the basics with your books. I’ve downloaded a few of your other freebies and just wanted to say thanks for all the wonderful effort you go to, to produce such wonderful resources.

    Shelley M. Brisbane, Queensland.

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      March 21, 2018 at 7:00 am

      So glad you enjoy them! 🙂

      Reply

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Hi! I’m Becky, a homeschooling mama with 4 blessings who keep me on my toes {and knees}. Before homeschooling, I was a classroom teacher (M.Ed.) and reading tutor. Read more about me here.

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