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 is a method for teaching reading and writing of the English language by developing learners' phonemic awareness âthe ability to hear, identify, and manipulate phonemes âin order to teach the correspondence between these sounds and the spelling patterns (graphemes) that represent them.