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Telling time worksheets allow a person to be easier when sitting down to teach a child to know what time it is. Although it’s not the simplest lesson to teach it can be very rewarding for both a teacher and student.
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How to Teach a Student to Tell Time
One of the best ways to teach a child time telling is to appeal to their natural creative processes. If you include their favorite things or even items of your own that they admire but are only allowed to handle when you are present, often they are able to grasp and understand time telling lessons easily.
It’s always best to make any learning process for a child as easy and fun as possible. Time telling is best taught by beginning with abstract concepts. Perhaps you would begin by announcing when an event or activity will begin, set a stop watch or alarm clock when they will begin and announce when they are over. This will help a child learn to feel what an amount of time feels like to them. You may also consider timing their own activities and showing them how long their uninterrupted activity lasted. Once they begin to understand this, they can learn to count in groups of five by using raisins, small crackers or even blocks while they learn this process.
Once the child demonstrates a basic understanding of the five minute increments it’s a good time to present them with an analog clock or watch. This will teach them with hands on a device that consistently move minute by minute and is far more comprehensive than using a digital clock to begin with. This will also teach them to use the new skill they have learned in counting by 5’s. Learning time from a digital clock and attempting to transition them to learning on an analog clock will be too difficult. Print out clock worksheets that will look much like the analog clock they will be learning with to help your child match times that they are seeing on a clock.
If a child is making mistakes or if they become confused this will certainly cause anxiety and cause a delay in learning to tell time. After they have learned their five minute increments and have been introduced to the analog clock it’s time to begin learning to count from 1-60. Regularly work with your child with double digit numbers as these are the numbers a child is most likely to experience difficulty with.
Teaching children the general concepts of time such as morning, noon, afternoon, evening and night also creates a sense of understanding what time feels like. If they understand when they do things like “We have breakfast and get dressed in the morning, or “We take a bath and go to bed at night,” they will begin to understand the usual blocks of time when an event begins and ends. Periodically quiz your child by asking them when specific events occur.
Finally, you may consider purchasing or checking out books from a library that will help them learn the concepts of time and how it works. Worksheets addressing whatever level of the learning process they are working with can always be be hands on and enjoyable for any child.
Believe it or not, children can begin learning to tell time even when they are still a toddler. There are books available to assist in an early time telling learning experience.
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