Earlier and Later Time Worksheet: Telling Time Practice

How to use this worksheet

Look at the reference clock showing 4 pm together and read the time aloud. Have your child examine the other clocks and identify which one shows a time earlier than 4 pm. Move to the second part of the page, look at the given clock, and ask your child to find the clock that shows a time later than it. Talk through their reasoning together for at least one example, asking how they knew which clock was earlier or later.

Materials needed

• Pencil
• Eraser

Extension activities

• 1Have the child draw their own clocks showing different times and compare them to the worksheet's clocks.
• 2Use a real clock to practice telling time, pointing out the position of the hour and minute hands.
• 3Talk through your family's daily schedule and identify which activities happen earlier and which happen later.
• 4Play an earlier-or-later guessing game using two random times you say aloud, without drawing clocks.