The Normative Dimension of Develpoment

   


Engaging Children's Minds: The Project Approach
As most commonly used, the concept of development draws on the normative dimension. This dimension addresses matters such as what most children can and cannot do at  given age, this is the age norms. Patterns of behavior, abilities, and understandings that are typical and most frequently observed in children at a particular age thus treated as age norms"


Lilian G. Katz (20th century), U.S. early childhood specialist. "Should Preschoolers Learn the Three R's?" Parents Magazine (October 1990).

"Experts generally agree that taking all opportunities to read books and other  material aloud to children is the best preparation for their learning to read. The pleasures of being read to are far more likely to strengthen a child's desire to learn to read than are repetitions of sounds, alphabet drills, and deciphering uninteresting words."