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.
Analytical phonics-an approach associated with the teaching of reading in which the phonemes associated with particular graphemes are not pronounced in isolation. Children identify (analyse) the common phoneme in a set of words in which each word contains the phoneme under study.
Synthetic phonics is the way most schools in the UK teach children how to read and write. There's a lot of sound evidence that the phonics approach works. Listen to the 44 phonic sounds. Researchers at St Andrews University examined the teaching of synthetic phonics in Scotland over a period of seven years.