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.
As the name suggests, this phonics strategy teaches students to read through analogy-through the learning of onsets and rimes where a student learns unfamiliar words by recognizing similarities between words. Onsets are the beginnings of words, and rimes are the ending parts, which follow the onset.