ABSTRACT
The article presents the results of a study conducted with first semester students of the Technological Units of Santander in the city of Bucaramanga-Colombia, who present difficulties in the interpretative, argumentative and propositional skills. The objective of the study is to improve reading and writing practices by means of creative ludic activities from other scenarios, represented in the oral tradition narrated orally by grandparents in the past stage of social confinement caused by the Covid 19 pandemic. To compile the stories, it is done by means of the case study method with sociocultural approach following the methodological phases of induction, exploration, collection of oral traditions, evidence and documentary edition. In the latter, the production and writing of short and varied texts involving events of family life is carried out, giving free rein to the imagination. As a result, we obtain a book compendium of oral traditions authored by students, whose writing reflects pleasure, creativity, different emotions, which allows children, young people, adults to have fun with the reading of songs, couplets, stories, legends, myths and oral tradition is told and revived from generation to generation, while improving communication skills overcoming the literacy difficulties of students during their professional career. © 2023, University of Cienfuegos, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez. All rights reserved.