Sadako Sasaki was born in Japan in 1943 during World War II. The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. Sadako lived one mile from one bomb site. Sadako got leukemia. A friend told Sadako of a legend that said if a person folded 1,000 paper cranes, a wish would come true. Sadako died in 1955 at the age of 12. She had folded 644 paper cranes. Her friends finished the rest of the cranes for her.
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Sadako's Message of Peace
Tom Johnson
People & Places
|Vocabulary|Social-Emotional Learning|art|disease|maps|Prepositional Phrases|Japan|legend|health|Making a Difference|Sequence|Possessives|friends|Accuracy|Point of View|peace|cancer|Automaticity|family/friends/community|SEL|World War II
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1,109
B1
English
9781792254109
Sadako Sasaki was born in Japan in 1943 during World War II. The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. Sadako lived one mile from one bomb site. Sadako got leukemia. A friend told Sadako of a legend that said if a person folded 1,000 paper cranes, a wish would come true. Sadako died in 1955 at the age of 12. She had folded 644 paper cranes. Her friends finished the rest of the cranes for her.
Word lists coverage
The word and grammar lists are compiled from commercially available resources and English study websites. They are not intended to be authority. Use at your own discretion.| List | Total | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| Eiken Grade 1 | 3,105 | 0.03% |
| Eiken Grade 2 | 866 | 0.69% |
| Eiken Grade 3 | 900 | 10.89% |
| Eiken Grade 4 | 600 | 16.17% |
| Eiken Grade 5 | 600 | 18% |
| Eiken Grade Pre1 | 2,868 | 0.21% |
| Eiken Grade Pre2 | 1,327 | 0.98% |
| Eiken Grade Pre2+ | 1,562 | 1.73% |
| NDL | 875 | 23.31% |
| NGSL 1 to 1,000 | 1,000 | 21.9% |
| NGSL 1,001 to 2,000 | 1,000 | 3.5% |
| NGSL 2,001 to 3,000 | 801 | 0.75% |
| NGSL Supplemental | 52 | 7.69% |
Grammar lists coverage
The word and grammar lists are compiled from commercially available resources and English study websites. They are not intended to be authority. Use at your own discretion.| List | Total | Unique | Coverage | Unique |
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| Eiken Grade Pre1 | 94 | 94 | 0% | 0% |
| Eiken Grade 2 | 123 | 122 | 0% | 0% |
| Eiken Grade Pre2 | 111 | 108 | 0% | 0% |
| Eiken Grade 3 | 48 | 47 | 0% | 0% |
| Eiken Grade 4 | 52 | 49 | 0% | 0% |
| Eiken Grade 5 | 176 | 139 | 0% | 0% |
| A1 | 352 | 316 | 0% | 0% |
| A2 | 949 | 893 | 0% | 0% |
| B1 | 1,126 | 1,106 | 0% | 0% |
| B2 | 775 | 760 | 0% | 0% |
| C1 | 402 | 395 | 0% | 0% |
| C2 | 312 | 308 | 0% | 0% |