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.
There are lessons on three different levels to teach ELL students phonics topics such as short and long vowels, magic e, consonant digraphs and blends, hard c and soft c, word families, prefixes and suffixes, and the schwa sound. In addition, the lower levels include lessons on sight words.