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.
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.