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.
1 Assess phonics skills of adult beginning and (some) intermediate-level readers (see Chapter 8 for an initial assessment plan). 2  Provide explicit, systematic phonics instruction that is matched to the assessed needs of learners.  Follow a defined sequence of skills or adopt a structured phonics-based program.