For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD lesson talks about how to combine clauses in a few basic ways to make connections between ideas and to join ideas (e.g. creating compound sentences using "and", "but", "so"; creating complex sentences using "because").

Originally released by Language Tree, 2019. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on April 07, 2020.

Language Function and Construction: Connecting Ideas (2:24); .