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.
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.