I recently did a presentation at Collins Elementary in Houghton Lake, and we were practicing Profundity. At the K-3 level, so much of the work of deep comprehension needs to be done as a class and the thinking has to be oral practice for a long time. I used three books, all with one of the themes being "friendship", and had the teachers work in groups to analyze each level of the Profundity Scale. There are other themes and ideas in each of these books as well, and the deeper you go with understanding, the more is revealed! Here's what we used:
Up and Down by Oliver Jeffers (Philomel Books, 2010)
Hopper and Wilson by Maria Van Lieshout (Philomel Books, 2011)
Chopsticks by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, illustrated by Scott Morgan (Disney-Hyperion Books, 2012)
