Reading and writing in the classroom: the problem of school textbooks

This article focuses on two aspects: the first one approaches school textbooks, shows possible advantages and disadvantages and present some alternatives to deal with them. In this part, a discussion about teachers and literacy is exposed, by approaching the problem from the theoretical plane; the second one is the narration of my experience as a teacher of Spanish in a secondary school for more than 20 years, showing some examples of the pedagogical work.