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.
I believe that the goal of phonics instruction should be to make the students not need it anymore, just like an excellent driver shouldn't need to always slam on the brakes. How many of us sound out all of our words when we read? We don't. We only do that for the unusual or very difficult words.