The Read, Play, and Learn!® curriculum affords teachers the flexibility to modify activities for individual children at each of the three levels of learning: Sensorimotor: Children at the sensorimotor level are primarily concerned with object exploration. They learn by physically manipulating their environments. The goal for children at this level is to listen to the story, acquire new concepts and words, and begin to associate objects with illustrations and spoken words Functional: Children at this level will benefit from the exploratory activities offered to children at the sensorimotor level, and they can also move a step beyond and begin to connect actions across pictures. The goal for children at this level is to understand the story, link ideas and concepts together in a sequence, and recall characters and events in the story. Symbolic: Children at this level are interested in the story sequence and the printed word. Curriculum activities encourage these children to use higher-level reasoning, problem solve, and make evaluations and judgments. The goal for these children is to comprehend the story sequence, make predictions, draw inferences, and retell the story. For more information about levels, see the Levels of Learning page.