Temperature10° steps
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Read the top of the liquid against the scale, then write each temperature with its unit.
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Read Fahrenheit thermometers worksheets
The Fahrenheit scale is the one a US weather report uses, and reading it is the same number-line skill in the units children see at home. These free printable sheets show six Fahrenheit thermometers in ten-degree steps.
If they get stuck
Read Fahrenheit thermometers
The answer key prints on a separate page.
What's on this sheet
Each thermometer is labeled at its ends with evenly spaced ticks and a visible liquid level, and the child reads the top of the liquid against the scale and writes the temperature with °F. Values land exactly on a tick, so the work is reading the scale rather than estimating between marks before that idea is ready.
Why this sheet works
The six readings spread across a real weather range — a cold morning, a warm afternoon — rather than repeating one stretch of the scale. Fahrenheit's smaller degrees mean the everyday span runs to larger numbers than in Celsius, and counting the ten-degree intervals is the same reasoning children use with number lines and graphs.
How this one works
One question from a sheet like this one, worked a step at a time — with a sentence saying what just happened and why.
Read Fahrenheit thermometers, step by step