Thank you for the free downloads! Your spelling curriculum is on my wishlist for next year. I am learning a lot from your blog posts.

Smart idea

I think the tiles have helped my little one retain the information. : )

I love the letter tiles! My son is very visual and this helps him to see the spelling rather than just discussing it. My daughter also loves to “teach” her stuffed animals using the tiles.

This is very helpful! Thanks!

This is something I am going to try to implement. What I like is the ability for the child to have less stress with mistakes because they can trade tiles easily. Thank you for sharing this post!

My daughter is a hands on learner and having a program with letter tiles would be so helpful to her! This program looks great, I would love to own one!

I haven’t used AAS spelling yet. But I think my girls would love it.

I haven’t used AAS before, but really feel my kids would be drawn to the letter tiles. I have visual and kinesthetic learners and we love more hands on approach and would keep phonics and spelling from being boring.

I just started AAS with my 3rd grader. Before using this program, I felt that we just pushed to memorize the words with no true lessons being learned. Now we are understanding why words are spelled a certain way. She loves the tiles. They are much for fun than the typical spelling contract tasks, it is almost like a game. She is doing great on her advancement through the steps and enjoying it too!

I love the letter tiles. I believe it makes the learning process easier and lots more fun for kid and mom!

The letter tiles were great for my son! I like using them for spelling practice instead of only pencil and paper.

I honestly often use a whiteboard that she or I write in. But she wants to use tiles now and this post has got me ready to do it!

my kids love using the letter tiles!!

Ah! Now it makes sense! You know, I was actually wondering over the purpose of the tiles. I’m starting All About Spelling with my oldest in January so this clears up some of my concerns.

really enjoy using the tiles with my children and it makes practice fun. i am always looking for more ways to use them as the color coding REALLY does help them SEE the word after they have built it!

I’ve never used All About Spelling, but I really like this idea of using letter tiles. I have a visual learner, and this might be a big help to him when he gets into spelling (still in K4). I am definitely interested in looking into this further.

Love the letter tiles idea. I have been trying to figure out how to do this with magnetic letters and it’s just not working. Thanks for the tip!

We just recently received AAS level one, we are excited to use it!

I should have been using letter tiles all along with my “must-move” child! Why did I not think of it before – it’s so helpful to have something to physically move around!!!

The letter tiles has helped my hands on daughter so much!

I used this method with my struggling speller several years ago, now he is a great A speller at 14

Using letter tiles has helped my daughter see how words are put together for spelling. . She is able to see the rules put into practice and catch any mistakes easily.

I love this. I found out that my son didn’t really know all of his vowel sounds when we started using this program and can see why spelling was a challenge for him. We’re still on level one, but moving through it, I an see how much it helps.Using the letter tiles for writing will be a great help since he hates writing.

I like using letter tiles! They are really helpful for the tactile learners.

I love the letter tiles. It has helped my daughter so much! It makes learning fun for her too.

I love love love the spelling tiles, and the kids love them too!

I’m just starting AAS 1 with my second child. My first one is a natural speller and hasn’t needed the tiles as much, but this second child of mine…he does so much better with the tiles than without because they are tactile and they do indeed keep his attention longer. So glad we’ve found AALP, thanks!!

My children spot their errors very quickly with the tiles. They don’t seem to get as frustrated as they did when working with pencil & paper alone. My son has derived great benefit from AAS – those developing fine motor skills won’t let him work with pencil for very long before his hands are tired and work gets sloppy…. but he can slide those tiles around for a long time! We have them on a large whiteboard, and we combine tile work with writing the words in dry erase marker. Somehow that’s WAY more fun than a pencil! Thanks for AAS Marie, it has made a world of difference for us!

Letter tiles have really helped me see my daughter’s problem in spelling as it happens, rather than later on when I’m looking at her work.

I would love to try AAS, Currently we are doing AAR, but looking forward to adding this component!

I haven’t used these specific tiles but have used the concept of these spelling rules before when tutoring dyslexic children. These rules worked wonders. Even my five year old can understand most of them. I love the Orton-Gillingham methods.

Love these, I have made some letter tiles some time back for our Afrikaans friends in South Africa, there are not as pretty as yours, but parents find them very helpful for their kids.

I am looking forward to using the magnetic letter tiles with my son. I think seeing and touching the letters will really help him.

Letter tiles would definitely be beneficial for my son. He has some fine motor issues, so having to write out spelling words would be frustrating for him. These tiles are great!

I can’t say enough about what AAS has meant to our family! We stared Kindergarten going the Sonlight multi-subject package route and by 1st grade, we began discovering that we needed something “outside the box” but we weren’t really sure what we needed. We kept coming back to AAS and decided to try it this summer and are about done with Level 1. AAS really pointed out areas where my child was struggling and revealed some underlying reading issues and dyslexia. The tiles have been such a great addition because it gives my busy son something to physically put together. As he “builds” a word with tiles, he is building the word in his mind which creates this mental picture that he rarely forgets. The constant team tiles have really helped him put sounds together and to visualize a word before writing it. There have been lessons where, because of time, we skipped the tiles and just went straight to paper and those are the very concepts my son is still struggling with because we didn’t take the time to thoroughly learn the concepts when they were first introduced. We are having to back track because of that (lesson learned!!). Because of the success we’ve seen w/AAS and how it’s carrying over to reading as well as working with a tutor and seeing how her methods line up with the format of AAR, we are looking to switch over to AAR within the next month as well! While I wish we had started out with AAL in the beginning, we learned some valuable, life-changing lessons about homeschooling and letting go of the standard educational and age expectations as well as letting go of what’s not working despite the money invested in it for the benefit of our child and his education and future…lessons we wouldn’t have learned otherwise.

My daughter also loves using the tiles instead of having to write out the words when she is first learning. It makes it a lot easier for her to make a mistake. I also found that she is more tactile and uses the tiles to her benefit to remember something. For example, trying to remember that f, l and s are doubled at the end of a one syllable word with a short vowel….she started pointing to the tiles and now she has no problem remembering which letters usually double. Could not be happier. Thank you!!!