espanolCaracterizar algunas mediaciones docentes en la formacion literaria de estudiantes de educacion basica secundaria y educacion media, de colegios de la ciudad de Cali, Colombia, fue el proposito principal de este articulo. Se considero que el enfoque metodologico de la etnografia educativa seria el mas apropiado para este trabajo de campo, por ello se realizaron entrevistas en profundidad, entrevistas grupales a estudiantes y observaciones de clase; se logro asi identificar y categorizar aquellas intervenciones didacticas de los docentes que potencian o no, las diversas competencias lectoras que permiten a los jovenes establecer pactos lectores con las obras literarias del canon escolar. EnglishCharacterize some educational mediations in the literary formation of students of secondary and secondary education, of schools in the city of Cali,Colombia, was the main purpose of this article. It was considered that the methodological approach of educational ethnography would be the most appropriate for this fieldwork, for this reason, in-depth interviews, group interviews with students and class observations were conducted; it was thus possible to identify and categorize those didactic interventions of teachers that enhance or not, the various reading skills that allow young people to establish reading pacts with the literary works of the school canon