Perhaps the most important point for early childhood educators is that young children learn best by doing – and are thus more likely to meet standards when they have the opportunity to experience concepts in physical ways. For example, when young children use their bodies to demonstrate low, high, wide, and narrow shapes, they greatly enhance their understanding of these intellectual mathematical concepts. When they act out words and stories, children add many dimensions to their comprehension – and are far more likely to remember what they’ve engaged with (emergent literacy). When they role-play and pretend to be the negative and positive poles of a magnet, the concept of magnetism comes to life for them (physics).