My study aims to analyze the literary workshops, integrated to the project Second Cultural Shift, promoted by the Ministry of Culture in partnership with the Department of Education in the schools called Escolas do Amanhã located in Rio de Janeiro, embedded in a larger context, under PNLL (Book and Reading National Plan). The project Second Cultural Shift offers cultural workshops for schools in risk area in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The condition of moving within the school environment, makes it pertinent to check the work of literary reading texts held by the workshops. The research comes from readers considering public book and reading policy; following question to the mediation of literary reading and training the reader in school. The experience of literary workshops as possibility to understand the world and relate in different social contexts.