the parents and teachers can make learning fun and exciting, with new ideas and concepts, the child will not lose interest. Making learning fun is not difficult; it just takes a parent or teacher who is willing to make their child’s education a priority. The ideas given in this paper do not take a lot of money, nor do they require a lot of time. Spending an hour a day reading, drawing, or even coloring with your child should always be easy. Just turn off the tube, schedule the time with your child, and make learning the number one priority.ConclusionOur schools are in fact better than most people give them credit for, yet there is still more that needs to be done. Schools need to meet the challenge of educating all children to the highest standards. New, better and different ideas end up forgetting the old and bringing on the new. What is old is left behind, and the new is usually just different. The school systems need to work on intertwining systems already available to ensure the highest possible standard of education for our children. As the critics of both phonics and whole language argue over who is right and who is wrong, our children are the ones who suffer. Once again, I do believe that whole language can not and will not help our children achieve the highest possible standard without the introduction of phonics into the curriculum. Phonics based learning can and will allow children to become the best readers and spellers possible. The challenge will be to find that common ground between phonics and whole language and get our students excited about learning to read....
