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Lindsay Pickton and Christine Chen

Authors, resource creators and co-founders of Primary Education Advisors

Lindsay Pickton is a co-founder of Primary Education Advisors, where he works alongside Christine Chen to support schools nationwide. With over 20 years of experience, he specialises in developing reading enjoyment, grammar teaching and literacy resilience. Lindsay has led literacy subject leade... Lindsay Pickton is a co-founder of Primary Education Advisors, where he works alongside Christine Chen to support schools nationwide.

With over 20 years of experience, he specialises in developing reading enjoyment, grammar teaching and literacy resilience. Lindsay has led literacy subject leader networks and provided expert moderation for KS1 and KS2 writing.

A published author and series editor, he collaborates with OUP, Pearson, and Collins, creating valuable resources and delivering impactful training.

As co-founder of Primary English Advisors, Christine Chen specialises in more able learners and curriculum development.

She has led networks for more able and outstanding learning, developed cross-school projects and created bespoke curriculum content. Christine is a published author and works with OUP, Pearson, Collins and Discovery Education to produce high-quality resources for primary education.

Rose Meets Mr Wintergarten activities

Primary by Lindsay Pickton and Christine Chen

Rose Meets Mr Wintergarten – KS1 planning and activities In the deceptively simple picture book Rose Meets Mr Wintergarten, Bob Graham introduces us to Rose Summers and her family. They are new arrivals who must learn about their scary (yet unseen) next-door neighbour, Mr Wintergarten. Through the first half of Rose Meets Mr Wintergarten, we experience Mr Wintergarten only via his intimidating garden of […]

Writing dialogue KS2 teaching resources

Primary by Lindsay Pickton and Christine Chen

Writing dialogue KS2 – Sharna Jackson WAGOLL Creating dialogue that not only feels ‘right’, but also introduces and develops plot-points is a mark of really strong writing...

Cloud Busting by Malorie Blackman activities sheet

Primary by Lindsay Pickton and Christine Chen

Cloud Busting Malorie Blackman – KS2 cross-curricular activities In Cloud Busting by Malorie Blackman, powerful themes and extraordinary language come together to change the way children see – and describe – the world… There are few books you can read in less than an hour that have the emotional, literary impact of Malorie Blackman’s Cloud Busting. The central themes of bullying, friendship and […]

Boudicca KS2 planning

Primary by Lindsay Pickton and Christine Chen

Boudicca KS2 – Queen of Darkness planning Battle the Romans with Boudica and learn how historical records can reveal the past, with this semi-fictional take on the famous queen...

The Storm Whale planning

Primary by Lindsay Pickton and Christine Chen

The Storm Whale planning – Books for topics KS1 Dive deep into Noi's island world, and help pupils infer narrative from pictures in Benji Davies’ enduring favourite...

Primary by Lindsay Pickton and Christine Chen

Reading for pleasure – how to improve reading comprehension to foster enjoyment Why simply encouraging reading for pleasure isn’t enough, and how you can develop ability long-term

Primary by Lindsay Pickton and Christine Chen

How to take the stress out of home learning Home learning doesn’t have to feel like school, and with these games and activities reading, writing and spelling will barely feel like work, say Christine Chen and Lindsay Pickton...

Primary by Lindsay Pickton and Christine Chen

How comics boost reading comprehension If children are word-reading but not understanding, graphic texts will help make them masters of meaning and inference...

Primary by Lindsay Pickton and Christine Chen

Help Children Write Grammatically Accurate, Creative Stories – Without Teaching To The Test The GaPS test may be useless, but don’t let it strip the creativity from your lessons. Teaching grammar is essential to the art of good story telling...

Primary by Lindsay Pickton and Christine Chen

A Dramatic Flourish – Use the forum theatre technique to help your pupils write more expressively Using forum theatre, Christine Chen and Lindsay Pickton have a powerful method for helping children master the tricky art of showing, not telling… Ask your class to show you what ‘angry’ looks like, and they will probably be able to give you a good freeze-frame using eyes, eyebrows and mouths, possibly even chins and hands. […]

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