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Word Families are sometimes referred to as groups, chunks or rimes. A word family has something in common with each other, have it be the prefix, suffix or root word. For example, green, grass, grow all have the "gr" sound in the beginning of the word.

Word families are important because they help young children recognize and analyze word patterns when they are learning to read. When teaching analytic phonics, teachers use word families to help children understand these patterns and that certain words have the same letter combinations and sounds.

Most Common Word Families

According to researchers Wylie and Durrel, there are 37 common word families: ack, ain, ake, ale, all, ame, an, ank, ap, ash, at, ate, aw, ay, eat, ell, est, ice, ick, ide, ight, ill, in, ine, ing, ink, ip, it, ock, oke, op, ore, ot, uck ,ug, ump, unk.

• ack: back, hack, pack, rack
• ain: brain, chain, main, plain
• ake: awake, bake, cake, fake
• ale: ale, bale, sale, tale
• all: all, ball, call, hall
• ame: blame, came, game, same
• an: an, ban, can, pan
• ank: bank, drank, sank, tank
• ap: cap, map, rap, tap
• ash: bash, dash, rash, sash
• at: bat, cat, fat, mat
• ate: fate, gate, late, rate
• aw: claw, draw, paw, saw
• ay: day, hay, may, say
• eat: beat, feat, meat, seat
• ell: bell, fell, tell, well
• est: best, rest, vest, west
• ice: dice, mice, nice, rice
• ick: brick, kick, pick, sick
• ide: bride, hide, ride, side
• ight: bright, fight, light, night
• ill: bill, hill, pill, still
• in: bin, chin, grin, tin
• ine: dine, fine, mine, vine
• ing: bring, king, sing, wing
• ink: drink, link, pink, sink
• ip: chip, dip, lip, sip
• it: bit, fit, hit, sit
• ock: block, clock, rock, sock
• op: cop, hop, mop, top
• ore: bore, more, sore, tore
• ot: got, hot, not, rot
• uck: buck, duck luck, tuck
• ug: bug, hug, mug, rug
• ump: bump, dump, jump, pump
• unk: bunk, dunk, junk,sunk

Source: Richard E. Wylie and Donald D. Durrell, 1970. "Teaching Vowels Through Phonograms." Elementary English 47, 787-791.

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This set of Word Family Word Work is an INTERACTIVE way to introduce your young students to digital learning through Google Slides™.

This product has a total of 75 interactive slides (5 per word family). Each slide has moveable pieces so your students can demonstrate their knowledge about word families. The word families included are: -at, -ap, -an, -et, -en, -ell, -it, -in, -ing, -op, -og, -ock, -ug, -un, -uck

For each word family students will:

•FIND the words (word search activity)

•SPELL the words (drag and drop letters)

•READ the words (oral reading activity)

•TYPE the words (typing activity)

•MATCH the words (drag and drop words)

After purchasing, you will download a PDF that includes links to the Google Slides files. You will need a free Google account and access to Google Slides to use this product. Please note: These interactive slides are designed to be used in EDIT mode, not PRESENTATION mode. While these activities are interactive with drag and drop capability, they are NOT self checking.

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Teaching Reading With Word Families

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Watching your students grow into successful readers is one of the most exciting things about teaching kindergarten and first grade. Seeing my students go from pre-emergent readers to fluent readers amazes me every time ! After months and months of hard work, something clicks and their reading takes off. But we know that behind the scenes, there was a lot of intentional planning to get them there. One of the most successful strategies I have found to help young students learn to read is teaching with word families.

How to Teach Word Families

Teaching reading with word families is one of the most effective techniques I have found as an early literacy educator. The repetition that students see and hear within the words is very important. They start to recognize the phonics patterns quickly and use these skills to help them decode words for years to come. Practicing word families also builds on the skill of rhyming and helps to make the connection between sounds being heard and the letters that make them.

Students begin to understand the basic sounds of letters and words by using word family activities. The process of focusing on a word family allows students to master the “chunk” in the word. Through practice and repetition of the same word family, students become more fluent readers! Check out this FREE resource for using word families to develop reading fluency .

Once students recognize how the rime (the ending chunk of the word) stays the same, they only have to focus on changing the beginning sound. Reading with word families makes decoding much faster and easier for students, which builds their reading confidence. There are so many fun and engaging ways to incorporate word families into your reading lessons. Let’s take a look at some of my favorites!

#1 – Introduce Word Families with Pictures

One of the easiest ways to introduce word families is with pictures. This is a great place to start when introducing a new set of words. Pictures help students make the connection between the sounds of words and the meaning of the sounds. And if your emergent readers have not quite mastered their phonemic awareness, it is a great strategy to help them recognize that letters create words. This not only helps with decoding but it also reinforces that letters have sounds.

Before children are even able to talk, they are already making that important connection between an object they see and the word that is used to describe it. Using that natural way of learning helps students to learn new words and understand that when the letter sounds are put together, they form the word that represents the image.

#2 – Use Hands-On Centers

We all know how much students can learn from hands-on activities. One of the best ways to bring highly-engaging word family practice to your classroom is through centers ! By using hands-on centers as part of the learning process, your students will be more engaged and often won’t even realize they are learning!

Word family practice can be incorporated into literacy centers in many different ways. For example, write and reveal activities allow students to build words in various word families. If you’d like to focus on one particular short vowel word family, you can just add those write and reveal activities to the center. The best part of this activity is that each card is self-checking using clothespins (this also adds a bit of hand-strengthening to the center).

CVC word-building activities are a class favorite year after year! I love that they are easy to store and grab as needed. It’s probably no surprise that these activities find their way to our reading groups for word family practice many times during the year!

Another reason to use centers for practicing word families is that they can be individualized based on the needs of your students. For young learners who are ready for more of a challenge, you can add multiple word families that use several different vowels.

#3 – Practice Identifying Word Families Quickly

Word identification is an important part of reading. The faster that students can learn to recognize the “chunks” of word families, the better their reading will be. In my word family mini-books , I incorporated some fun word search activities to help students with this skill.

The first activity is a word quilt. Each square contains a different word with a mix of word family words and other CVC words. Students must find and color all the words from the target word family. They can practice reading the words again once they have found and colored each one.

Students can also put on their detective caps and go searching for word family words in sentences. Before reading the sentences, students search for and circle the word family words. Not only does this give them practice in finding that important chunk, but it also helps them prepare for reading the sentence.

#4 – Read Word Families in Context

Once students have been introduced to the new word family and read some words, it is important to move those words into a sentence. After all, this is how students will find the words in real life. Reading words in a sentence is one of the final steps of teaching reading with word families.

These simple sentences use basic sight words and word family words to provide a fun way to practice reading sentences. The students love seeing how their reading fluency improves as they read and re-read.

Begin by having your students go through the sentences and circle or highlight any words in the designated word family. Next, have them read each sentence three times. They can do this with a partner, in a center, or even for homework.

Sentence strips are a great way to keep your word family sentences organized. You can laminate the strips and keep each set of word families together on a binder ring. This allows for easy access in small groups or reading centers.

As students find success reading sentences, you can move them on to simple word family reading passages . Students really love knowing that they can read a story all on their own.

The best part of these reading fluency passages is that students can also use this resource to work on reading comprehension. One low prep activity that helps students practice reading with accuracy, fluency, and comprehension? Yes, please!

I hope that these activity ideas have shown you that teaching reading with word families can be a lot of fun! Using pictures, games, identification, and context will help your students become budding readers in no time!

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Kiz Phonics uses an eclectic mix of analytics , analogy and synthetic phonics methods when teaching children to read words. Our phonics powerpoints primarily employ analogy and synthetic phonics approaches, which are best-suited for teaching word blending. Download and use these excellent extra resources in your phonics lessons.

What is synthetic phonics? To synthesize means to combine or blend. Synthetic phonics teaches children to read words by blending or combining the individual sounds of the word.  We use synthetic phonics in our powerpoints to create word families. Look at the examples below:

• / a/ /t/ blending – we blend /a/ with /t/ to read a word chunk ‘ at ’.
• / oa/ /t/ blending – we blend /oa/ with /t/ to read a word chunk ‘ oat ’.
• / ee/ /t/ blending – we blend /ee/ with /t/ to read a word chunk ‘ eet ’.

What is analogy phonics? Another word for analogy phonics is word chunks or word families. With this method, a word chunk is taught first and then other sounds are added to form new words in the same family. Look at the examples below:

• ‘ at ’ word chunk/family  is taught and used to build similar words like c at , r at , m at , s at , th at
• ‘ oat ’ word chunk/family  is taught and used to build similar words like c oat , b oat , m oat , g oat
• ‘ eet ’ word chunk/family  is taught and used to build similar words like sh eet , b eet , gr eet

We start by using synthetic phonics to create word chunks. We then use these word chunks/families in an analogy phonics method to add new sounds and read similar words. This exponential approach to teaching phonics is a key ingredient in the Kiz Phonics program.  Similar resources for teaching using this method can be found in the Kiz Phonics ® lesson videos under each level.

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• Open the powerpoint and view as ‘slide show’.  Each powerpoint is not automatic, which means it only moves to next if you click the left mouse button or the down arrow on your keyboard.
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•  Let students attempt to read the sentence. They should get the colorful words right but may struggle with the sight words of the sentence. After several attempts by different students, the teacher reads the sentence correctly and asks kids to repeat.
•  For quick comprehension, ask questions about the picture of the sentence. For example, ‘Where is the mouse in the picture? Can you show me?’

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Kindergarten (K1) Blending PPTs

'at' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'at' word families and blends.

'en' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'en' word families and blends.

'ab' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'ab' word families and blends.

'ack' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'ack' word families and blends.

'ad' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'ad' word families and blends.

'ag' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'ag' word families and blends.

'am' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'am' word families and blends.

'an' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'an' word families and blends.

'ap' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'ap' word families and blends.

'ash' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'ash' word families and blends.

'ast' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'ast' word families and blends.

'ed' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'ed' word families and blends.

'ent' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'ent' word families and blends.

'est' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'est' word families and blends.

'et' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'et' word families and blends.

Kindergarten (K2) Blending PPTs

'ig' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'ig' word families and blends.

'og' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'og' word families and blends.

'ub' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'ub' word families and blends.

'ib' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'ib' word families and blends.

'ick' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'ick' word families and blends.

'id' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'id' word families and blends.

'in' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'in' word families and blends.

'ink' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'ink' word families and blends.

'ip' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'ip' word families and blends.

'ish' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'ish' word families and blends.

'it' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'it' word families and blends.

'ix' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'ix' word families and blends.

'ob' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'ob' word families and blends.

'ock' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'ock' word families and blends.

'od' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'od' word families and blends.

'op' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'op' word families and blends.

'ot' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'ot' word families and blends.

'uck' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'uck' word families and blends.

'ug' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'ug' word families and blends.

'um' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'um' word families and blends.

'un' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'un' word families and blends.

'ut' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'ut' word families and blends.

1st Grade Levels 1 & 2 Blending PPTs

'ail' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'ail' word families and blends.

'ain' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'ain' word families and blends.

'ay' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'ay' word families and blends.

'each' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'each' word families and blends.

'ead' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'ead' word families and blends.

'eal' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'eal' word families and blends.

'eam' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'eam' word families and blends.

'east' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'east' word families and blends.

'eat' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'eat' word families and blends.

'eed' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'eed' word families and blends.

'eep' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'eep' word families and blends.

'eet' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'eet' word families and blends.

2nd Grade Level 1 Blending PPTs

'oad' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'oad' word families and blends.

'oat' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'oat' word families and blends.

'all' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'all' word families and blends.

'ar' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'ar' word families and blends.

'aw' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'aw' word families and blends.

'ew' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'ew' word families and blends.

'ir' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'ir' word families and blends.

'ood' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'ood' word families and blends.

'ook' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'ook' word families and blends.

'oom' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'oom' word families and blends.

'oon' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'oon' word families and blends.

'or' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'or' word families and blends.

'ou' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'ou' word families and blends.

'ow' blending ppt (long o)

Powerpoint for teaching 'ow' (long o) word families and blends.

'ow' blending ppt (double vowel)

Powerpoint for teaching 'ow' (double vowel) word families and blends.

'ur' blending ppt

Powerpoint for teaching 'ur' word families and blends.

Word Families Activities for Teaching Phonics

Word families are a great way to teach children synthetic phonics and make reading easier. A list of words belonging to a word family are introduced. Most common word families with the short 'a' sound include: at, as in bat and cat, ap as in nap and clap. They also occur in long vowel combinations such as 'eep' as in sheep and deep, and 'oat' as in goat and float. Word families tend to have the same vowel and consonant combination in their endings. With the same ending, word families can be used to read and spell a variety of words. This leads to an exponential growth in a child's reading and spelling capabilities. Using a word family lists, students can practice reading unknown words and build a vocabulary for unfamiliar words. Teachers could also use a word families chart. The goal of word family charts is to develop phonemic awareness, which is crucial to reading success. By introducing a word family, students will understand how similar words sound and look. They will also begin to recognize that the alphabetic writing system is a complex system, and that one little chunk of a word can be used to unlock a whole host of words. They will soon discover that this linguistic tool is an invaluable tool in reading and learning.

Word family activities are a fun and efficient way to help kids practice and build their vocabulary with these word families. Whether in a classroom setting or with a parent at home, these activities are a great way to get children involved and practice reading a new word family. At Kiz Phonics we offer several word family activities in the form of games, worksheets and lesson plan materials.

Before teaching word families to your students, they should have strong phonemic awareness skills. During the first phase, children should be exposed to a word family one at a time. It is important to introduce each word family in a separate activity. Generally, avoid teaching too many word families in a day. Ideally, one or two word families a day is sufficient. It is essential to be consistent though. To further develop children's reading abilities, they can be made to brainstorm for a word that rhymes with another. While they are learning the word family, they can also play games that practice rhyming with different letters. Word families can help your students learn to read because the word families often have similar letter patterns that can be absorbed quickly.

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Phonics PPT | CVC Words

Teach word blending and CVC words with these free phonics PPT s. The phonics PowerPoints on this page are for teaching phonics CVC (consonant vowel consonant) words. Below you’ll find 27 phonics PPTs for CVC words with the short vowel sounds, a, e, i, o, and u. Each phonics PowerPoint presents different CVC word families. These are great for beginner-level kids who are learning phonics and the alphabet.

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Phonics PPT – CVC Words

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Word Family: _at

Word family: _an, word family: _ad, word family: _ap, word family: _ab, word family: _am, word family: _ag, short e cvc words.

Word Family: _et

Word family: _ed, word family: _en, word family: _eg, short i cvc words.

Word Family: _ig

Word family: _in, word family: _id, word family: _ip, word family: _it, word families: _im and _ix, short o cvc words.

Word Family: _ob

Word family: _og, word family: _op, word family: _ot, word families: _ox, _od, and -om, short u cvc words.

Word Family: _um

Word family: _un, word family: _ut, word family: _ug, word families: _ud, _up, and _us, more phonics lesson materials.

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Forbes has released its list of the world's billionaires. There are more than ever before — and they're wealthier.

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Forbes has released its annual list of the world's billionaires and in 2024, there are more people on the list than ever — and they're richer than ever.

There are 141 more billionaires in the world than last year, with 2,781 in total. Their combined worth equals $14.2 trillion — up by $2 trillion in 2023.

The 2024 list also broke records set in 2021, with 26 more billionaires on the list and their combined net worth up by $1.1 trillion. 

Billionaires themselves are also wealthier, with two-thirds adding to their worth. The top 20 on the list gained the most, adding $700 billion to their combined worth since 2023. And the U.S. has a record 813 billionaires — the most of any country.

China has 473 billionaires and India has 200, which set a record for that country.

To tally their wealth, Forbes used stock prices and exchange rates from March 8, 2024.

Bernard Arnault and his family are at number one, with a net worth of $233 billion. Arnault is head of LVMH, a luxury fashion and cosmetics conglomerate in France. The family is usually in the top three of Forbes' wealthiest people in the world lists.

Elon Musk, once the richest person in the world, is No. 2 on the list, with a net worth of $195 billion. Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, also bought Twitter for $44 million in 2022, renaming it X. 

Musk owns an estimated 74% of the social media company, which is now worth nearly 70% less than he paid, Forbes estimates. This and other factors like low Tesla earnings have lead to his net worth dipping below $200 billion several times over the last two years.

Coming in at No. 3 is Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who has a net worth of $195 billion. Then comes Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who is worth $177 billion.

Other famous names on the list include: 

• 100. Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch and his family, worth $19.5 billion
• 137. Dallas Cowboys General Manager and President Jerry Jones, worth $13.9 billion
• 1,330. Jay-Z, worth $2.5 billion 
• 1,851. Kim Kardashian, worth $1.7 billion 
• 2,545. Taylor Swift, worth $1.1 billion

The wealthiest woman on the billionaires list comes in at No. 15: Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, the granddaughter of the founder of L'Oreal. As the richest woman in the world, she is worth $99.5 billion.

The top four wealthiest women after Bettencourt: 

• 21. Alice Walton, Walmart founder Sam Walton's daughter, who is worth $72.3 billion
• 23. Julia Koch and her three children, who inherited a stake in Koch Industries from her husband when he died and is worth $64.3 billion
• 35. Jacqueline Mars, who owns one-third of candy and food company Mars, who is worth $38.5 billion
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Storytime Standouts features 21 free word family printables for kindergarten, grade one and homeschool

Whether supporting my own children as they learned to read, tutoring kindergarten and/or grade one children who are struggling with reading or presenting my Beginning to Read program, I have always been a great fan of teaching Word Families.

Introducing the concept of Word Families helps kindergarten and first grade students understand that elements of words are the same. Three words may have different parts but they may also be very alike. Once a child learns to decode the word “RING,” he can be encouraged to substitute the beginning sound and read, “ SING, ” “ KING ,” or “ BRING ” with word family materials.

The idea of substituting a beginning sound (or an ending sound) can be introduced long before a child is learning to read. Phonemic Awareness activities will encourage preschool and kindergarten children to play with sounds. A young child with good phonemic awareness skills will grasp the idea of decoding Word Families very quickly.

If you are working with a child who is not reading at the expected level, we think that phonemic awareness should be one of the very first things that is assessed.

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10 Printable Word Family Flip Books for Kindergarten and First Grade –

An easy way for children to learn and practice the an, at, ed, ell, ick, ing, op, ot, ug and  uck word families, i use these word family flip books in my beginning to read program. i find they are terrific for encouraging young children to see the relationship between bat, cat, fat, mat, pat, rat and sat..

For good readers, it is very obvious that bed, fed, led, red and Ted are related. They all end the with “ED.” For a beginning reader, the relationship between these words may not be understood. When children create and use a Word Family flip book, they will notice the relationship between the letters and the words and they quickly learn to substitute the beginning sounds. Before long, they discover that they can read several words quite easily.

Word family flip books are easy to make* and can be tucked into a pocket or a backpack for extra practice at home or on the road.

We really recommend that children make the flip books themselves.

Free Word Family Printables – Words with Pictures for Kindergarten and Grade One

I also use these Word Family printables in my Beginning to Read program. For children who are not quite ready to decode words, the picture clues provide additional support.

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Gag Order Against Trump Is Expanded to Bar Attacks on Judge’s Family

Donald Trump had in recent days targeted the daughter of Juan Merchan, the judge overseeing his criminal trial in Manhattan, in blistering social media posts.

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The New York judge overseeing Donald J. Trump’s criminal trial later this month expanded a gag order on Monday to bar the former president from attacking the judge’s family members, who in recent days have become the target of Mr. Trump’s abuse.

Justice Juan M. Merchan last week issued an order prohibiting Mr. Trump from attacking witnesses, prosecutors, jurors and court staff, as well as their relatives. That order, however, did not cover Justice Merchan himself or the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, who brought the criminal case against the former president.

And although the ruling issued on Monday still does not apply to the judge or the district attorney, Justice Merchan, granting a request from Mr. Bragg’s office, amended the gag order so that it does now cover their families.

In his ruling, the judge cited recent attacks against his daughter, and rejected Mr. Trump’s argument that his statements were “core political speech.”

“This pattern of attacking family members of presiding jurists and attorneys assigned to his cases serves no legitimate purpose,” Justice Merchan wrote. “It merely injects fear in those assigned or called to participate in the proceedings, that not only they, but their family members as well, are ‘fair game’ for defendant’s vitriol.”

Mr. Bragg’s office had asked the judge to clarify that their relatives were included, calling such protection “amply warranted.” Noting Mr. Trump’s track record of issuing “threatening and alarming remarks,” Mr. Bragg’s office warned of “the harms that those family members have suffered.”

The personal connection to the gag order complicated Justice Merchan’s decision. Shortly after last week’s initial gag order, Mr. Trump issued a series of blistering attacks on Mr. Merchan and his daughter, Loren, a political consultant who has worked with Democratic candidates.

Specifically, Mr. Trump had accused Ms. Merchan — falsely — of having posted a photo of him behind bars on an account on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. Court officials said the account cited by Mr. Trump had been taken over last year by someone other than Ms. Merchan.

On Thursday, Mr. Trump intensified his attacks , identifying Justice Merchan’s daughter by name and accusing her of being “a Rabid Trump Hater, who has admitted to having conversations with her father about me, and yet he gagged me.” The former president then renewed his demands that the judge recuse himself from the case, calling Justice Merchan “totally compromised.”

And on Saturday, in an ominous escalation, Mr. Trump posted a news article to Truth Social that displayed two pictures of Ms. Merchan.

Then, on Tuesday morning, after Justice Merchan’s decision, Mr. Trump called him “corrupt” in a social media post demanding that he be recused and the case dismissed.

“Juan Merchan, GAGGED me so that I can not talk about the corruption and conflicts taking place in his courtroom with respect to a case that everyone, including the D.A., felt should never have been brought,” Mr. Trump wrote . “They can talk about me, but I can’t talk about them??? That sounds fair, doesn’t it?”

Mr. Trump, the first former American president to face criminal prosecution, is scheduled to go on trial on April 15. Mr. Bragg charged him with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to the reimbursement of a hush-money payment to hide a sexual encounter with a porn star, Stormy Daniels.

Mr. Trump, once again the presumptive Republican nominee for president, has denied the affair and the charges, which he claims are politically motivated. Mr. Trump and his campaign have also lashed out at the gag order, calling it “unconstitutional.” And his lawyers argued against expanding the gag order to include Justice Merchan and Mr. Bragg’s family, noting that the original order did not cover the judge or the district attorney.

Todd Blanche, one of Mr. Trump’s lawyers, declined to comment on Monday.

Steven Cheung, a spokesman for Mr. Trump’s campaign, called the judge’s amended gag order “unconstitutional,” because, he said, it prevents Mr. Trump from engaging in political speech, “which is entitled to the highest level of protection under the First Amendment.” He added, “The voters of America have a fundamental right to hear the uncensored voice of the leading candidate for the highest office in the land.”

Justice Merchan is just the latest judge to impose a gag order on the former president. A federal appeals court upheld a gag order in Mr. Trump’s federal criminal case in Washington, where he is accused of plotting to overturn the 2020 election.

And in his civil fraud case in New York, Mr. Trump was ordered not to comment on court staff members after he attacked the judge’s principal law clerk. The judge, Arthur F. Engoron, imposed $15,000 in fines on the former president when he ran afoul of that order.

If Mr. Trump violates the order, the judge could impose fines, and in extraordinary circumstances, throw him behind bars.

In a court filing on Monday, Mr. Bragg’s office asked the judge to warn Mr. Trump that he will be punished if he ignores the order, using stark language that underscored the state’s concern about the former president’s words.

“Defendant’s dangerous, violent and reprehensible rhetoric fundamentally threatens the integrity of these proceedings and is intended to intimidate witnesses and trial participants alike — including this court,” Mr. Bragg’s office wrote.

In his five-page ruling, Justice Merchan noted that Mr. Trump had a right “to speak to the American voters freely and to defend himself publicly.” But he sought to balance those rights with the impact of Mr. Trump’s statements on the trial.

“It is no longer just a mere possibility or a reasonable likelihood that there exists a threat to the integrity of the judicial proceedings,” the judge wrote. “The threat is very real.”

Kate Christobek contributed reporting.

Jesse McKinley is a Times reporter covering upstate New York, courts and politics. More about Jesse McKinley

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Accidents are surging on the slopes

If you’re a skier in California, chances are you’ve noticed the slopes at major resorts seem a bit more crowded than they used to be. You might even know someone who has been injured in a collision with another skier or snowboarder.

To find out what’s going on, we asked some of the biggest and best-known ski areas in California for data on the number of skiers who have visited their resorts and the number of injuries they’ve sustained in recent years.

What did they tell us? Absolutely nothing. Most didn’t even respond to the request.

So we turned to the state health department, which, it turns out, keeps a vast database of visits to emergency rooms. They keep track of the reasons, too. The list includes car crashes, dog bites, falling out of bed — and extremely rare events such as hang-glider crashes and forced spacecraft landings. (Yes, “spacecraft.”)

Ski injuries increased 50% over seven years.

Buried in the millions of records on the health department’s website were more than 30,000 emergency room visits due to skiing and snowboarding injuries from 2016 through 2022. And those injuries went up at an alarming clip, a 50% increase over the seven years.

This came as no surprise to retired ski patrollers, emergency medical technicians and hospital staff in mountain town emergency rooms. They placed the blame on a number of factors :

• A growing recklessness on the slopes that seems to have emerged post-pandemic, behavior often exacerbated by people gobbling pot gummies and magic mushrooms or drinking copious amounts of alcohol before hitting the slopes.
• Another factor: Skiers are so focused on taking selfies and shooting video for their social media feeds that they seem oblivious to what’s happening around them. And they’re willing to go way beyond their limits for the perfect shot. A classic mistake is riding the gondola to the 11,053-foot summit at Mammoth to get a selfie with the iconic signpost that marks the top, only to discover there is no easy way down.

It’s not just the number of injuries that seems to be increasing, it’s also the severity.

On a busy Friday shift in early March, Dr. Kyle Howell said he saw four patients rushed from the slopes to Mammoth Hospital’s ER with punctured lungs, two with air in their chest cavities around their hearts. He spent hours “fixing the face” of a kid who had smashed into a tree.

Howell said he doesn’t normally have to juggle that many serious cases at once. But the injuries were familiar. At least two of the patients with punctured lungs had not fallen on their own. They had been hit from behind by skiers or snowboarders careening out of control. The impact had broken their ribs and burst their lungs.

“Personally, that’s my biggest fear when I’m skiing,” said Howell, who has worked at the hospital more than 20 years.

The rapid expansion of terrain parks has added to the risk.

Years ago, when kids built little ramps at the side of a ski run, ski patrollers would demolish them with shovels and threaten to confiscate their lift tickets.

These days, resorts build ramps themselves — massive ones — and giant halfpipes designed for the kind of soaring acrobatics you see in the Olympics. They’re a big draw and feature heavily in marketing materials. The hype tempts inexperienced people to go faster, bigger and higher, with predictable results.

“It’s not uncommon for me to treat several patients on a given day who have suffered what amount to 40-foot falls when they overshoot the landing on big jumps,” Howell said. “These are just massive, massive falls, and they cause the kinds of injuries we only used to see in professional athletes.”

Skiing and partying have always gone hand in hand. But in years past, it felt as though most of the debauchery was saved for apres ski.

That seems to be changing. Nurses at Mammoth Hospital have a hack to figure out if they’re about to get busy: They check the webcams on mammothmountain.com to see if the outdoor bars are filling up while the lifts are still running.

Hard partying might be fine on a fishing trip or a golf outing, said Caitlin Crunk, Mammoth Hospital’s chief nursing officer. But skiing is a sport that requires fine motor skills and reasonable inhibition. She can’t understand why anybody would want to ski while drunk.

“You’re like a 30-mile-per-hour weapon out there, bombing down the hill with, essentially, swords on your feet,” Crunk said. “That’s just a recipe for disaster.”

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