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.
Productive approaches to. teaching word meanings involve teaching a set of target words in a way that. generates knowledge of a larger set of words. We discuss three approaches to. productive instruction: teaching children to derive word meanings from COII-. text; teaching word parts such as prefixes, suffixes, and roots; and teaching. words as part of semantic groups. Wesuggest a two-track approach to leaching.