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.
In the first level of instruction, the teacher explains the. phonemic awareness or phonics element. Then the teacher engages the students in. reproducing the sound (or reading the rhyming pictures, and so on). This instructional. process takes place in a whole-group setting.