Telling Time to the Nearest 5 Minutes Task Box

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 22 pages

• 18 clock cards across 3 levels (6 cards each). Every card is a drawn analog clock, with the numerals 1 to 12 around the dial, a short thick hour hand and a long thin minute hand, over digital times such as 3:05, 3:30 and 3:45. The child reads the clock and marks the matching digital time. Every hour 1 through 12 is the hour of at least one card, and every minute count :00, :05, :10 ... :55 is on at least one card; all 18 clock times are different
• Every card twice: tinted clock faces for a laminated classroom box, and black-and-white faces for the photocopier. Every clock is drawn in the file, so both hands sit exactly at the minute in both sets, and the two hands read apart by length and thickness, never by color alone
• A minute reference strip (color and ink-saver): 12 clocks, the long hand on the 12 and then on each numeral 1 to 11, each over its digital time with a "long hand on the ..." caption
• An answer key listing every card by level: the time the clock shows and every time printed on the card, the right one in bold
• A task box data sheet (16 rows: date, level, cards used, cards correct, cards given, percent, help given, initials)
• A percent graph, 14 sessions across, with a level box under each session
• A filled example: an invented student, 8 sessions, every percent re-counted from its own row
• A family practice page with six of the same cards, cut apart as one 3 x 2 grid
• A phrase bank: spoken lines for running the box and written starters for the note afterward, 25 lines in 6 groups
• Start Here, a contents page with page thumbnails, and a "what's next" back page

Three Levels, And The Difficulty Is Which Hand The Tiles Disagree About

• Level 1: 6 cards, 3 times each. Every time on a card has the same hour; only the minutes change, and every pair is at least 15 minutes apart on the dial. The child reads the long hand.
• Level 2: 6 cards, 3 times each. Every time on a card has the same minutes; only the hour changes, and every pair is at least two hours apart. The child reads the short hand.
• Level 3: 6 cards, 4 times each. Besides the right time, each card has one tile with the two hands read the wrong way round (4:15 read as 3:20), one tile with the next hour over and the same minutes, and one tile with the right hour and other minutes. Three misreadings children really make, one tile each.

The answer is never printed on the card. A dot code in the corner marks the level, so a mixed-up box sorts itself back together.

DRAWN CLOCKS, ON PURPOSE. No emoji or clip-art clock prints hour numerals a child can read, and none can be set to an exact five-minute time. Every clock in this file is drawn from code, so the short hand sits where it belongs past the hour, in both sets, and the ink-saver version is pure black line.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF: type into the data sheet, the graph header, the family page and the example-style notes, or print and use a pen. The card pages and minute strip print on cardstock or plain paper and cut along dashed lines. 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 uses five-minute times only (no times like 4:07). It is not a telling-time curriculum: it carries no lesson sequence, no prompt order, no fading schedule and no mastery rule, and it does not decide what a percent means for a student or when to move up a level. The goal line and the criterion field are blanks for your district's own wording and your team's own number. It measures one thing: cards with the matching five-minute time marked.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers and paraprofessionals running independent work stations or task box rotations with students who read the hour and half hour and are moving to five-minute times, case managers who need that practice to show up as data, and the families who get the practice page sent home.

More In The Collection

This is one set in the Task Box Collection; more sort, counting and life-skills boxes are being added regularly, all on the same cards-plus-data shape.