The study is oriented to reading - writing for the development of the linguistic skills of the elementary school students of the Bartolomé de las Casas Educational Unit of the Jama canton in 2022, due to the virtual education that has been carried out for two years. years due to the global health emergency, which has generated great changes in education, with reading and writing being affected, with elementary school students being the most affected. The descriptive methodology of field type and bibliography was applied, the scientific method was used, and the techniques used were interviews with teachers, surveys with parents and observation sheet for students with a population of 32 parents, 10 teachers and 32 students. The result was that the existing relationships between oral and written language could be described from the point of view of the components of the language of those involved.