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.
Synthetic phonics is the way most schools in the UK teach children how to read and write. There's a lot of sound evidence that the phonics approach works. Listen to the 44 phonic sounds. Researchers at St Andrews University examined the teaching of synthetic phonics in Scotland over a period of seven years.