In this article we have systematized the “Reading and writing as sociocultural practices work shop”. This workshop was carried out with third semester students from the Licenciatura en Educación Básica  con énfasis en Humanidades,  Lengua  Castellana, Education  Department,  Universidad de Antioquia. It includes a reflection over the workshop’s methodology that serves as a didactic structure that allows for collective production and an approach to the subjective political and esthetic dimensions present in written culture. The article asserts the need for future language teachers to take in to account the place that sociocultural language practices have within and without educational settings.