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.
Phonics-methods of teaching. Synthetic phonics-an approach associated with the teaching of reading in which phonemes (sounds) associated with particular graphemes (letters) are pronounced in isolation and blended together (synthesised).