The purpose of reading goes far beyond the objectives set out in school curricula. The formation of abilities to discover literary and non-literary texts are essential in the intellectual development of children. Outlining the first elements of the student's cultural profile is a goal that can be achieved by knowing the literary texts that should be a common cultural core at the level of generation and between generations. The issue of the text is circumscribed depending on the dimension assigned to it in the process of forming the reader: the function of reading support, but also the value of artistic creation or cultural object. The valorization of traditions in literary works requires the presence of didactic approaches meant to inscribe the text in the cultural context that generated it or in the cultural horizon that it recreates and to put the proposed text for reception with other texts.