Volume of reading

Cunningham, A. E., & Stanovich, K. E. (1998). What reading does for the mind. American Educator, 22, 8-15. https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/periodicals/cunningham.pdf

Reading for pleasure

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/09/decline-children-reading-pleasure-survey

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED496343.pdf

https://www.booktrust.org.uk/globalassets/resources/research/reading-for-pleasure-in-secondary-schools-literature-review.pdf

https://edublog.scholastic.com/post/what-research-says-reading-volume

https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2018/08/teenagers-read-book
U.K. vocabulary study shows long-term benefits of reading for pleasure: Lower nursing home bills, not just better K-12 scores?

 
Can You Provide Models to DeMystify Writing Assignments

Here are some samples:
Clean up mistakes in handwritten one.
https://ebooksforstudents.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Three-Models.pdf
 
Reading in Secondary Schools
Another Chance: Help for Older Students with Limited Literacy.
Greene, Jane Fell
American Educator, v22 n1-2 p74-79 Spr-Sum 1998
https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/greene.pdf

State Curricula

New York State Curriculum:

http://www.nysed.gov/common/nysed/files/programs/curriculum-instruction/ss-framework-9-12.pdf