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.
Phonics is the understanding that there is a predictable relationship between phonemes. (the sounds of spoken language) and graphemes (the letters and spellings that represent. those sounds in written language). Readers use these relationships to recognize familiar. words and to decode unfamiliar ones.