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Oxford Word Magic
Oxford Word Magic for Young Word Players
Oxford Word Magic is a children’s activity book of word games and puzzles from Oxford. Crosswords, word searches, anagrams and rhyming games build vocabulary while children play.
The “magic” is the oldest trick in teaching: work disguised as play. Oxford Word Magic performs it expertly. Its natural shelf-mate is Oxford Children’s Picture Dictionary, whose words these games spend.
About Oxford Word Magic
Oxford Word Magic is a vocabulary activity book for children, built from word games. Pages of puzzles, searches and matching games introduce and recycle English words in themed sets.
Oxford’s children’s list is known for learning that feels like leisure, and this book is a small masterpiece of the genre. Oxford Word Magic gives teachers a Friday-afternoon resource and parents a quiet-car resource with equal grace.

Let children graze Oxford Word Magic freely — one puzzle or a page a day both work. The download is linked from the button on this page.
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Play as Vocabulary Teaching in Oxford Word Magic
A word met inside a game is met at full attention, which is why puzzle-learned words persist. Oxford Word Magic is a vocabulary curriculum hiding inside a puzzle book, and the hiding is the method.
Games with Real Language Inside
Each game is built from a themed word set — food, animals, school, weather — so play accumulates organised vocabulary rather than trivia. Oxford Word Magic’s puzzles get gently harder across the book, carrying children further than they notice going.
The Finishing Effect
Children finish puzzles. That simple fact gives this book a completion record worksheets envy — pages done, words kept. Teachers set Oxford Word Magic for early finishers and watch the whole class start finishing early.
Oxford Word Magic at Home
At home it converts waiting rooms, journeys and rainy Sundays into vocabulary time without a single protest. Oxford Word Magic is the rare educational purchase that children request.
For the teacher’s own phrase stock, see Perfect Phrases For Classroom Teachers.














































