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.
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.