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.
Contact Us. These activities help with initial and end clusters in words (eg spin, desk). This area of phonic knowledge is introduced in the Year 1 Term 2 objectives of the National Literacy Strategy Framework. Choose a start sound and an end sound and let Wordblender 'bl-bl-blend' them together to make a new word. A fun game to help practise those clusters.