Literary Education has recently been the focus of the Program and Curricular Goals of Portuguese in Basic Education (2015) and its contribution to the training of readers has been highlighted, especially regarding the compromise between autonomous reading practices and itineraries that encourage teaching literary text comprehension. In this study, we reflect upon these challenges, based on a set of lesson plans completed by means of a work developed in the curricular unit of Initiation to Reading and Writing (1st degree in Basic Education, 3rd year), centered on the exploration of the domain of Literary Education in articulation with teaching of the development of reading comprehension. Instruments used to gather data were 12 lesson plans developed by students, with the aim to investigate the relevance they attached to Literary Education in the classroom, through the analysis of their different proposals to operationalize the targets included in such domain, crossing it with the domain of Reading and Writing. We infer that they depreciate some of the objectives and respective targets within the scope of Literary Education, sometimes making a weak articulation with the domain of Reading and Writing. We conclude that there is a need for training programs that will enable future education professionals to consolidate their motivation for reading, for the repercussions on their future public.