Help kids figure out new words

I had written in detail as to how to figure out new words in one of my lessons in File Den which is now missing. Anyway, let me briefly explain how I encourage my students to figure out words they have not learned.

There are many words that cannot be learned the following way but it is worth looking at as it will be very useful to teach kids how to figure out many new words they come across. 

Family word 'an'

 Here is another example (final example) on how to prepare a book that can be easily learned by a disengaged kid. It has worked will all my students who learn to read within a few months.