This article seeks to review the trajectory of the working group ";Literacy, reading and writing";, in the period 1991-2001, based on an analysis of diverse historical texts, reports, programmes and abstracts of the annual meetings of ANPEd. It emphasises the principle themes and areas of knowledge, indicates and analyses important advances and fragilities, mapping the development of the working group and revealing aspects of the history of the Association itself. The poet Carlos Drummond, in the year in which we commemorate the centenary of his birth, accompanied us in our review of this period, revealing unseen aspects of the reality under analysis, highlighting simplicity as a criterion. The text is dedicated to Magda Soares, one of the founders of the Working Group, with a notable production in this field of study.
literacy; reading and writing; working group