Perhaps the biggest casualty of the ‘reading wars’, or more specifically the fight over whether to teach phonics, is that it robs a lot of time from potential discussions about how to teach phonics well.

And considering every primary school in England teaches phonics, that seems like a conversation we should be having, says professor Julia Carroll who is a reader in Child Development and Education at Coventry University and one of the world’s leading authorities on phonics.

So in this podcast, we delve into the nitty gritty of phonics teaching, looking at topics such as differentiation, spelling and when phonics should stop...