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.
Comparison of Traditional Phonics and the Spalding Method. 1  Spalding teaches 45 phonograms through dictation before reading begins. 2  Spalding teaches all major sounds for each of the phonograms from the beginning. 3  Spalding does not recommend cue words to help remember phonogram sounds.