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.
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.