Telling Time Matching Binder: Clock Faces to the Hour

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 19 pages, 126 type-in fields

• A Match the Clock board: four labeled time slots (It is 3 o'clock, 6 o'clock, 9 o'clock, 12 o'clock) and a full 12-picture clock-face grid — with its own 12 cut-apart clock cards on the same sheet
• A Daytime and Nighttime Routines board: two category slots (This happens in the daytime / This happens at night), a 3-picture daytime grid and a 2-picture nighttime grid — with 3 daytime cards and 2 nighttime cards
• Both boards twice: a full-color set for a laminated binder and a black-and-white ink-saver set for the photocopier
• 28 cut-apart picture cards in all, counting the color set and the home page once
• A weekly tracker: 9 board jobs down, Monday to Friday across, one letter per cell (no help / pointed once / said the words / not run), a "no help" count per row and a week total
• A binder organizer: a front cover, a spine strip and nine divider tabs (three of them blank)
• A home version: a smaller set of the same matching cards (11 cards) for the kitchen table, with a seven-day "we did it" row
• A family update with a team hand-off block for the next adult who runs the binder
• A phrase bank: 24 lines in 6 groups (spoken lines for running the boards, written starters for the note afterward)
• A filled example — an invented student, one week, every count re-counted from its own row
• An answer key listing every board, the cards it takes and what correct looks like, plus the full word list (classroom set and home set)
• Start Here, a contents page with page thumbnails, and a "what's next" back page

A telling-time binder built for two skills at once: reading four landmark clock times and matching all twelve on-the-hour faces, then sorting daily routines into daytime or night. Most matching binders stop at the board; this one adds the tracker, the family update and the phrase bank behind it, so clock-face matching turns into a week of counts a case manager can bring to a meeting.

The Boards

• Match the Clock (page 6 in color, page 7 in ink-saver) — the board stays whole above a cut line; the card band below cuts apart. Four slots for the landmark hours 3, 6, 9 and 12 o'clock, and a 12-picture match of every hour from 1 o'clock to 12 o'clock: the child matches the identical clock-face card onto its picture.
• Daytime and Nighttime Routines (page 9 in color, page 10 in ink-saver) — two slots sort each card onto "This happens in the daytime" or "This happens at night," then two picture grids (3 daytime, 2 nighttime) check the match.

The Pictures

• Clock face cards (12): 1 o'clock through 12 o'clock, a literal picture of an analog clock at each hour — no color-coded hands, no drawn-on cues
• Daytime cards (3): morning, school bus, lunchtime
• Nighttime cards (2): bedtime, nighttime
• Home page — a smaller subset: 6 clock cards (1 through 6 o'clock), all 3 daytime cards, both nighttime cards

Every picture was chosen to be named in one or two words by a young child, in color AND in the black-and-white set; a candidate that failed in either set, or that could be confused with a neighboring card, was left off both. The daytime-and-nighttime list is honestly short (5 words against the clock board's 12): a sunset picture was left out because it reads as the same image as sunrise read backwards, and a second clock-shaped "wake up" picture was left off the routines board so it would never be confused with the twelve real clock faces on the first board.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF: type into the tracker, the organizer, the home page and the family update, or print and use a pen. The board pages print on cardstock or plain paper; the card band cuts off the bottom and the board stays whole. It works offline with no account or subscription. It is NOT an editable online slideshow or word-processor document, and it is not a test of anything.

It carries no prompt hierarchy, fading schedule or mastery rule, and it does not decide what a count means for a student, when a board is done with, or at what age a child should read a clock. The tracker counts which boards were done and what help was given, and nothing else.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers and paraprofessionals running clock-face matching or picture-matching practice with early, pre-reading or low-verbal students, case managers who need that practice to show up as data, and the families who get the home page.

More In The Collection

This is the third binder in the Morning Work & Adapted Books Collection; more matching binders (seasonal themes, personal information and safety) are being added to the collection regularly, all on the same boards-plus-tracker shape.

Pictures (color pages): Noto Emoji by Google, Apache License 2.0. Pictures (ink-saver pages): Fluent Emoji, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, MIT License.