Challenge your students’ critical thinking and sequencing skills with the interactive Telling Time Task Cards: Before & After! This engaging task card activity helps students practise identifying the time that comes before and after the hour, quarter past the hour, and half past the hour, supporting a deeper understanding of time progression.

This set includes 60 mini task cards that reinforce the skill of identifying what time comes before and after key time intervals. For example, if the clock shows 8:00, the time that comes an hour before is 7:00 and an hour after is 9:00. Students will write their answers in the blank spaces provided on each card, building fluency and accuracy in understanding time sequences.

Telling Time Task Cards: Before & After is a low-prep and versatile resource, perfectly sized to fit in a Kmart rainbow photo storage container for easy organisation. For a fun small group game, divide your class into six coloured teams. The first team to correctly complete all their cards wins! This resource is suitable for both individual and small group learning. Be sure to explore the other Telling Time Task Card Sets in this range for even more time-telling practise!

Key Learning Outcomes:

• ✅ Practise identifying the time that comes before and after key time intervals
• ✅ Strengthen understanding of sequencing and time progression
• ✅ Develop fluency in reading and writing time to the hour, quarter past, and half past
• ✅ Build confidence in navigating time on an analogue clock
• ✅ Support independent and collaborative learning with hands-on practise

What’s Included:

• 60 mini task cards featuring:
• - Analogue clock times
• - Blank spaces for students to write the time before and after
• Colour-coded sets for team-based games (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple)
• Instructions for flexible classroom use

Materials Needed:

• Printed task cards (cut and prepared)
• Pencils or whiteboard markers for writing responses
• Dice (optional for adding a fun game element)
• Storage container (Kmart rainbow photo storage recommended)

How to Use:

1. Print and prepare the task cards for classroom use.
2. Introduce or review key strategies for identifying times before and after with your students.
3. Have students independently or in small groups read each clock time and write the times that come before and after.
4. For a fun group game, divide your class into six coloured teams and assign them their coloured card set. The first team to accurately complete all cards wins!
5. Encourage collaborative discussion and peer checking to reinforce understanding and accuracy.

Ideas for Classroom Use:

• 💡 Include in maths rotations as a sequencing and time practise activity
• 💡 Use as an independent task to reinforce time progression concepts
• 💡 Provide for early finishers to build fluency with time sequences
• 💡 Support EAL learners with scaffolded small group practise and guided discussion
• 💡 Laminate cards for durability and repeated use in classroom stations

Top Teacher Tips:

• 💛 Laminate the task cards for long-term use and durability
• 💛 Store in a Kmart rainbow photo storage container for easy organisation
• 💛 Model how to accurately identify times before and after before independent work
• 💛 Use the colour-coded sets to run fun and engaging small group competitions

Telling Time Task Cards: Before & After is a fun and effective way to help your students develop confidence and fluency in sequencing time. With its interactive format and game-based options, it’s a fantastic addition to your classroom time resources!

The other Telling Time Task Card Sets in this range are also available for download:

• Clip the Time
• Hands of Time
• It’s About Time
• Solving Time
• Spin & Cover
• Time Expression
• Time Check
• Time Pattern
• Time to Match
• Roll & Draw
• What’s the Time?