Telling Time is Divine
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What's Inside
Learning how to tell the time is quite divine!
Read this math book side by side with a child and talk through the clock words together. The pages practice telling time, the little hand and the big hand, minutes in one hour, hours in a day, quarter past the hour, and quarter till the hour.
It gives children a chance to practice time words and build steady math fluency. It works well for early readers in first through third grade who are learning to read clocks. Read it aloud more than once and pause to point to the hands on a real clock as you go.
Teaching & Discussion Guide
Use this guide to turn Telling Time is Divine into a mini reading lesson at home or in the classroom.
Concepts & skills practiced
- Telling time
- Reading the hour hand and minute hand
- Minutes in one hour
- Hours in a day
- Quarter past the hour
- Quarter till the hour
Discussion Questions
- 1 What do the little hand and the big hand tell us on a clock?
- 2 How do you know when a time shows a full hour, a quarter past, or a quarter till?
- 3 What do you notice about the minutes on a clock as the hands move around?
- 4 Can you point to a time of day when we might wake up, eat lunch, or go to bed?
- 5 Why do you think practice helps when we are learning to tell time?
- 6 If I said it was quarter past the hour, how would you explain that on a clock?
Words to Learn
- time
- Time tells us when things happen.
- clock
- A clock shows the time.
- little hand
- The little hand on a clock shows the hour.
- big hand
- The big hand on a clock shows the minutes.
- minute
- A minute is a small part of an hour.
- hour
- An hour is 60 minutes long.
- quarter past
- Quarter past means 15 minutes after the hour.
- quarter till
- Quarter till means 15 minutes before the next hour.
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