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.
Analytical phonics-an approach associated with the teaching of reading in which the phonemes associated with particular graphemes are not pronounced in isolation. Children identify (analyse) the common phoneme in a set of words in which each word contains the phoneme under study.
Embedded Phonics. This is probably the least effective way to teach reading in the above 4 listed strategies. Embedded phonics is used together with-as a side branch of-the whole language method of learning to read. This is a very implicit approach where limited amounts of letter and sound relationships are taught during reading sessions.