This latest review comes to you from, Allsaid & Dunn, LLC, publishers of The Reading Game and authors of the Wordly Wise series. Their series called The Magic Stories consists of six engaging stories: The Magic Hole, The Magic Ax, The Magic Joke, The Magic Hotdog, The Magic Boots, and The Magic Box.
The Magic Stories are delivered in PDF format and can be printed (which is what we did) or can be used on the iPad or the computer. Eli doesn’t particularly like to read off the computer screen so we printed the each of the stories off.
With each story, there is a list of “40 Naughty Words.” These are challenging words from within the story. With the purchase of The Magic Stories you also get a PDF for printable Card Decks which have the naughty words and their definitions. There are also Writing and Comprehension Worksheets for each books.
There are also free resources to use with the stories. These include both a running record for one student or a running record to be used in a classroom setting. The running record is used to record how many words the student misses when reading the first 100 words from each story. 
More About the Stories
- The Magic Hole-On the way home, Ping Ho loses all the rice she just bought from town through a hole in the bag. When she told her parents what happened they could not find any hole. The hole returns in different ways throughout the story but eventually it significantly changes the lives of Ping Ho’s family.
- The Magic Ax-Tom is excited when his dad says that he old enough to join him cutting wood for the family to sell. However, he is easily distracted in the woods and does very little work. When Tom’s father breaks his leg it is up to Tom to cut the wood for the family. For a while, Tom has a magic ax but when the magic runs out he must learn to work hard.
- The Magic Joke-Princess Haji and her page stumble upon the strangest situation when they went for a ride. An entire village was doubled over in laughter, but what were they laughing about. The princess sent the page to find out but soon he was doubled over in laughter as well. Princess Haji is able to use the Magic Joke to stop the war between her father’s kingdom and the neighboring kingdom.
- The Magic Hotdog-Alfred can only eat hotdogs, eating hotdogs consumes his life.
- The Magic Boots-Six year old Patty desperately wanted pixy shoes. Finally, she is able to get them but when the man at the shoe store makes a mistake Patty acts so strangely.
- The Magic Box-Learn the real story of Rumpelstiltskin and his magic box.
Eli has enjoyed reading The Magic Stories. They are fairly long for him to read aloud to me in one setting so we have been taking turns reading.
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