Minimal skills curriculum

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Created: February 18, 2017 / Updated: July 24, 2025 / Status: in progress / 1 min read (~132 words)
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  • 12 months 3+ words
  • 20 months 20+ words
  • 24 months 100+ words
  • 30 months 300+ words
    From age 6 to 8, the average child in school is learning 6–7 words per day, and from age 8 to 12, approximately 12 words per day1.
    An average 20-year-old knows 42,000 words coming from 11,100 word families; an average 60-year-old knows 48,200 lemmas coming from 13,400 word families.2
Months Minimum words
12 (1yo) 3
20 20
24 (2yo) 100
30 (2.5yo) 300
36 (3yo) 500
60 (5yo) 3000
240 (20yo) 42000

$y = 0.6831x^2 + 13.343x - 539.5$
$R^2 = 0.9998$

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocabulary_development ↩

  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocabulary ↩