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In the dynamic tripod grip, the thumb and forefinger act like pincers, gripping the barrel of the pencil near its tip. The third finger acts like a support, bracing the forefinger as it moves.

Berninger and Beverly J. Wolf’s Teaching Students With Dyslexia and Dysgraphia (2009), students should “use a tripod grip in which the pencil rests on the first joint of the middle finger with ...