I know, I know: it isn’t even Thanksgiving, and here I am talking about the holiday season already. But I wanted to post about this set of free Winter Holiday Summarizing Task Cards now because I am really excited about them and also so that you can download them now and have them printed, cut, and laminated to use when you get back from the break.
I made this set of task cards free as a kind of holiday gift because I so very much appreciate all of you and the amazing work you do. I chose to do summarizing because:
- Summarizing is an important and challenging skill.
- Summarizing shows up in several Common Core Standards.
- I could use both informational text and fictional paragraphs (there are ten of each).
- My previous set of Summarize It! Task Cards is one of my best sellers.
Here is the first page, so you can see for yourself (or just download them…they are free!)


Thanks Rachel! I am a huge fan of the task cards and yours are some of the best out there. I wish you would consider some for high school students too!
I have several of your task card sets. I love the 4×4 pattern because of there's so little paper wasted. I usually have postcard stock, which makes it super simple to print. But even using regular card stock, there's very little cutting.