This study scrutinizes the emerging focus on physical activity correlated with academic achievement. The aim is to produce knowledge on the entanglement of human body and mind when involved in reading and to bridge theoretical-disciplinary gaps between cognitive and socio-cultural accounts of reading literacy. Based on a field test with 10-11-year-old primary students it engages a pragmatic problematization of the “body” in relation to reading literacy practices (Deleuze 1995). A micropolitical perspective is employed to map different articulations of ”heart”. Data indicates reading being differently experienced before/after pulse-pounding and in relation to types of reading activity. Critical/creative questions arise concerning the motoric/sensual body while in reading and the “pedestal status” of individual decoding skills, motivation/interest or an exercised brain.