The present work of professional sufficiency entitled "The anecdote as a strategy to improve oral expression", has been designed and executed with the students of the fifth grade of primary education. Its purpose is to promote anecdotes as a resource that leads to improving the competence of oral communication in our students, through a dynamic interaction between one or more interlocutors to express and understand ideas and emotions, therefore, this work This research is proposed considering our experience from the task in the classroom, where we can appreciate those difficulties or strengths that our students are presenting in relation to oral expression, for this the theoretical contributions referred to the characteristics of the Oral expression with emphasis on the proposal of the anecdote as a strategic resource for the achievement of the competence. In the pedagogical support, the...