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.
A phonemic awareness. component continues into the first grade program. Instruction related to phonics, the relationship between the sounds of language and. the alphabetic symbols (letters) used to represent those sounds, is introduced in. kindergarten and further developed in first and second grades. Phonics is taught and. reviewed in a whole-group setting in kindergarten through Grade 2.