Language based strategies

• Create a table as below
• Choose a colour or another trigger sensory word and write that word repeatedly in the rows of the first and third column (in this case 'white')
• Think of words that associate with your trigger word by sound or meaning
• Then write a paragraph using as many of the words you have listed in the sound column
• Do the same, but now with the meaning column words.

Association	By sound	Association	By meaning
White	Wait	White	Hot
White	Maid	White	Snow
White	Whitebait	White	Clean
White	Fight	White	Pristine
White	Flight	White	Virgin
White	Marmalade	White	Blood
White	Marmite	White	Colour
White	Parachute	White	Linen
White	Hide	White	Bright

He stood on the shoreline and watched the water making circles around the whitebait net. The season hadn’t been great thus far, he thought, as he walked towards his net. He didn’t want to get into another fight with his wife today. She needed him to bring in a good catch for their guests. A shame that you can’t get away with giving them a piece of bread with Marmalade or Marmite these days, he mused with a smile. 

He looked over the pristine estuary to the snow-capped peaks in the distance. It was going to be one of the first hot days, he could feel it. Squinting into the reflections on the water he arrived at his net. He started to haul the bright green mass in. His son compared the colour of the net with alien blood. He was into aliens at the moment. Has been for the last three weeks. Who knows what would follow next. Virgins?