Communication critters

I have been thinking about how to reward good communication in the class. I had seen the idea for 'quiet critters' online and wanted to use them with my class (who are all EAL children) for speaking English. I then thought why leave it at that and thought I could use them to reward good communication. I have written out the reasons why children would be given a communication critter (a Pom Pom with Googly eyes) to sit on their desk which they will then have to keep on their desk until the end of the lesson in order to colour in a communication critter on their reward chart. I plan to discuss what good communication is and get the children to act out examples which I will take pictures of and display around the communication critter rules.