Ekaterina Asonova — PhD in Pedagogy, Head of the Laboratory of Sociocultural Educational Practices, Institute of System Projects MCU. E-mail: AsonovaEA@mgpu.ru

Elena Romanicheva — PhD in Pedagogy, Chief Researcher of the Laboratory of Sociocultural Educational Practices, Institute of System Projects MCU. E-mail: RomanichevaES@mgpu.ru

Olesya Senenko — PhD in Philology, Leading Researcher of the Laboratory of Sociocultural Educational Practices, Institute of System Projects MCU. E-mail: SenenkoOV@mgpu.ru

Ksenia Kikteva — PhD in Pedagogy, Senior Researcher of the Laboratory of Sociocultural Educational Practices, Institute of System Projects MCU. E-mail: KiktevaKS@mgpu.ru

Address: Bld. 4, 2nd Selskohozyaistvenny proezd, Moscow, 129226

Professional teacher community describes the current situation in literary educationas a deep crisis and finds it necessary to update the objectives of teaching literature at school and review the education system as a whole by changing its participants fundamentally: education cannot and should not beregarded as a closed school system anymore. Expansion of citizens’ educational and cultural opportunities dictates the need for analyzing the outcomes of education through the prism of its needs. The infrastructure of reading is described as a system of components which provide for meeting needs and demands of the infrastructure subjects, i. e. citizens who read. The sociocultural approach as a way of determining the key urban environment prerequisites to promote the development of reading motivation and reading competencies in children and adolescents appears to be the most adequate and productive method of investigating and designing the infrastructure of reading.