When kids learn how to hold a pencil, they’re often taught one way is best. However, there are several ways to hold a pencil, any of which will help you write effectively and efficiently.

1) Keep reading to your kid. 2) Make sure they have a good pencil grip. No. 2 surprised people—the pencil grip isn’t something a lot of adults think about.

To the Editor:Recent issues of Education Week included a Renaissance Learning advertisement and an American Reading Company advertisement each showing a student using a very poor pencil grip.

— -- Perhaps the toughest thing about entering kindergarten is learning how to hold that darned pencil. On Thursday, Dixon Ticonderoga, the nation's biggest pencil maker, will unveil a pencil ...

The Leather Apple Pencil Grip is crafted by hand out of full-grain American leather, with baseball stitches and a stainless steel pen clip. It comes in two parts — a grip for the lower portion ...