Guest Blogger – Sarah Yergler

Quick Handwriting Tip for little fingers by Sarah Yergler

If your child has a poor pencil grasp, here is a quick tip on how to work on correcting it!

Look at the first picture of a child’s pencil grasp using a whole crayon.

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Now, after breaking the tip off of a crayon and giving the smaller piece to the child, check out the child’s pencil grasp. When the object to write with is small, the only thing they can do is use a tripod grasp!

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