This article contains a theoretical reflection on academic alphabetization, comprehension and text production metacognitive and cognitive strategies, and an approach to the teacher as a mediator of those strategies in University Education. Hence, its purpose is to study the need of developing academic alphabetization in the university curriculum, understood as the reading and writing activities and strategies from the discursive practices by which each discipline elaborates knowledge. From this perspective, the article makes up an asset for everyone interested in mastering language and communication, considering that in the current educational conception all teachers are responsible for the development of this area. The study is complemented by a group of ideas aimed at the elucidation of reading and writing functions as fundamental tools for producing, possessing and broadcasting knowledge.