This article presents a research about narrative, reading and writing experiences and teachers' biographies. Based on critical theory of culture and modernity, particularly on Walter Benjamin, the research intends to study reading and writing teachers' practices, to understand their relation with written language and to understand also in which way this relation influences pedagogic action. The article begins analysing theorethical and methodological questions; than it presents the phases performed by the research - exploratory period (when pre-school and elementary school teachers were interviewed), field study (when teachers that worked at the 20/30/40ies and the 50/60ies were interviewed), the main results; and, at the end, it summarizes the analyses that are being developed concerning reading and writing photographies in Rio de Janeiro daily life.