1 Portuguese are generally known as explorers, thanks to Vasco da Gama, Henry the Navigator, Bartolomeu Dias, Pedro Alvares Cabral and FernÃ£o de MagalhÃ£es, among others.  References to their wine (âportoâ), Fado music or sardines are also typical, as are their beaches.
Children use these phonograms to learn about âword familiesâ for example cake, make, bake, fake. Embedded phonics-an approach to the teaching of reading in which phonics forms one part of a whole language programme.
Spalding teaches phonics patterns as they occur in high frequency words, an order which, by necessity, is random. Traditional phonics teaches phonics patterns in a logical order, beginning with the most regular, the CVC words, and proceeding from the simpler to the more complex.