The Creative Curriculum^® for Infants, Toddlers & Twos translates research and theory from the field of early childhood education into a practical, easy-to-understand approach to working with children and their families. It is a comprehensive curriculum with a clear organizational structure and a particular focus on routines and experiences.

The organizational structure of The Creative Curriculum for Infants, Toddlers & Twos has five components that help you make good decisions about the routines and experiences you provide for infants, toddlers, and twos:

• Knowing Infants, Toddlers & Twos
• Creating a Responsive Environment
• What Children Are Learning
• Caring and Teaching
• Partnering With Families

These components rest on a solid foundation of research.

The book is organized into four sections:

The Foundation outlines the theory and research that underlie and explain the curriculum's focus on the importance of meeting basic needs, fostering social/emotional development, developing secure attachments, and supporting cognition and brain development.

Part 1: The Five Components (chapters 1-5) presents the organizational structure of the curriculum and gives you the information you need to set up your program and work with children and their families.

Part 2: Routines (chapters 6-10) shows how daily routines are an important part of the curriculum and important times to put research and theory into practice.

Part 3: Experiences (chapters 11-18) offers guidance about providing appropriate materials and interactions. This section also explains that, while planning for these experiences is important, you are only planning for possibilities because you must be able to respond to whatever interests a child.