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.
letters of the alphabet and systematic phonics instruction. the alphabet (Adams, 1990; Honig, 1996; Riley, 1996). knowledge is still the strongest predictor of reading success in fourth grade. sounds and word spellings than a child who does not know the letters of the alphabet.