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.
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.