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D tty’sArt

GenreComprehension

Skills and Strategy

Realistic fiction

• Author’s Purpose

• Sequence

• Questioning

Scott Foresman Reading Street 2.3.1 by Kama Einhorn

illustrated by Barb DragonyISBN-13:ISBN-10:

978-0-328-50832-70-328-50832-2

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Vocabulary

guess

pretty

science

shoe

village

watch

won

Word count: 296

Note: The total word count includes words in the running text and headings only. Numerals and words in chapter titles, captions, labels, diagrams, charts, graphs, sidebars, and extra features are not included.

D tty’sArtArtArt

Glenview, Illinois • Boston, Massachusetts • Chandler, Arizona Upper Saddle River, New Jersey

by Kama Einhornillustrated by Barb Dragony

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After science class, Dotty sat at her desk and listened to her teacher, Mr. Dean, talk about a school art show. Each student could enter one piece of art.

Dotty started to think. Bill said he’d draw his team playing soccer. Dotty told Maria that she should enter her pretty, clay turtle. But sadly, Dotty had no idea for her own art.


4

At home, Dotty worried. She couldn’t even guess what she would create.

Her mom said, “How about painting an apple tree?”

Her dad asked, “Can you draw using your name?”


5

“What do you mean?” asked Dotty. “Do you remember when we went to

the art show?” asked dad. Mom added, “Remember the

painter you called the dot artist?” “Seurat. I liked him a lot! I

think I said that over and over. Yes, I remember!” laughed Dotty.

“Start drawing dots, Dotty,” Dad said.


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Dotty liked the idea. She knew she could do it.

Dotty took crayons, markers, and a giant piece of paper, and started dotting away. She made big dots, little dots, and dots of every color. She filled her paper with thousands of dots. It took all week.


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Finally, she finished. There was a little dot village, little dot bees and fleas, and little dot people eating dot peas. The people even wore little dot shoes.

“It’s pretty,” Dotty thought. “I’ll call it Dotty’s Dots.”


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At the school art show Dotty drank punch and looked at her friends’ art. Jean had painted a real wagon wheel in all different colors. Dan had drawn one of his dreams.

Dotty liked to watch everyone look at her dots.


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Then her mom came over. “Dotty’s Dots won a blue ribbon,” she said.


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“We always knew your name would come in handy someday!” Dotty’s dad laughed.


Georges Seurat

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In the story, Dotty says she likes the “dot artist” Seurat. Georges Seurat was born in Paris, France, in 1859. He began drawing while he was in school. The style of painting he created used tiny “points” or dots of paint. He thought that using color this way helped show how light changes what we see.


Think and Share1. What reason do you think the author

had for writing this story?

2. What questions did you have about the story? How did asking these questions help you better understand what you read?

3. Have you ever won anything? Write two or three sentences about what you won or about why people like winning.

4. What clues are there on page 5 that Dotty’s parents are interested in art? Write the clues in a box like the one below.

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