This paper describes a reading activity developed with chemistry students. The main aim was to analyse the reflections produced after reading three articles about experimentation. This study was performed with 17 chemistry students from a federal university. The reading strategy involved writing productions. Questions and the pair of questions and answers elaborated from articles were analysed, as well as the contribution of the socialization of knowledge by means of discussions and a debate. These strategies were important to uphold more extensive reflections and to generate new senses from reading. It is pertinent to point the pedagogical importance of a last writing stage that consists in (re)creating texts from reading.