The pencil grip on the right really helped him! I highly recommend both of the tools above… if one does not work, try the other. Amazing! He was having a lot of fine motor difficulty -holding the pencil correctly and also when he was writing he could not press hard enough. More recently, I have a 4 year old who was having trouble and I bought him the pencil grip on the right. Here is a picture of how the pencil on the left above works: I have had 2 children use the pencil on the left to help them learn pencil grip. These sort of pencil grips may help your child feel more comfortable holding a pencil (ergonomically correcting an already correct grip).īaumgartens 00071 Twist and Write Pencil, Assorted Color Cimostar Ergonomic Pencil Grip ,Writing CLAW for Pencils and Utensils ,Set of 3
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We do not recommend the small grips that slip onto a pencil – in my experience, they still confuse the child where and how to hold the pencil. Click the picture below to see the tool we recommend for teaching someone how to hold a pencil correctly. If your child continues to struggle, there are some neat tools out there that really help children to grip a pencil correctly. He puckers his lips and curls his jaws in the shape of an ‘o’ – and clenches the pencil in his teeth. (Show your children what it means to pucker your lips!) Now that the alligator is holding the pencil in his mouth, place the pencil on the bottom jaw of the alligator,and close the alligator’s mouth on the pencil.Īs the alligator eats the pencil, he doesn’t like the taste of the pencil, so he puckers his lips. Open and close the alligator’s mouth – and show that the alligator is hungry and wants to eat the pencil! To teach the correct way to hold a pencil, you can have the child pretend his/her dominant (writing) hand is an alligator.
Primarily, you want the child to feel comfortable while writing and secondly, correct pencil grip will help improve handwriting. It is really important to teach correct pencil grip for a number of reasons. Sometimes it would be really difficult to teach a child how to hold a pencil until I figured out this fun and crazy alligator trick. As a mom to five little ones and as a kindergarten and special needs teacher, I have helped a lot of children learn how to hold a pencil correctly.
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