This study investigates whether reading aloud or oral reading is either an off stream or a nonexistent practice in the first years of the primary school in two municipal schools of Belo Horizonte. In order to do that, the teachers, participants of this research, were asked to do a little test: they had to list on a table how they used to teach reading in class. The results showed that reading aloud or oral reading is a frequent practice in the first years of school. Contrary to what we had thought, it was revealed that this practice is the mainstream of reading teaching in class, at least, until the fourth grade. Considering the results, we listed and discussed some hypothesis that could justify the results, and also we analyzed the concept of reading underlying the reading teaching of the participants of the two investigated schools.