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.
Besides correspondences, phonics instruction should develop blending ability. Blending means smoothly joining phonemes to come up with a pronunciation close enough to a word to access the word. Young children usually get their first taste of blending through rhyming. Rhyming is essentially blending a new onset to an old rime.