This study focus The Reading Class experience of the public schools in Rio de Janeiro city. Its main objective is to analyze the activities that take held in those schools, chiefly, the practices instituted with the literary text. In order to sign the historical context of the reading classes I have analyzed the official documents that regularize the program since its implementation. So I have verified that the reading classes would not be anymore privileged spaces for the reading practices of literary texts, as they were in the origin, to be nowadays multimedia spaces. Besides the documental analyses, I have observed two reading classes and I have made a lot of interviews with teachers and students of those schools. With the field research, I could verify that there are different conceptions and expectations concern the program. I understand this kind of search under a socio-historical perspective, where Mikhail Bakhtin's ideas are important statements.