Do you want to teach your students to analyze an author's craft, but don't quite know where to start? This 36-slide PowerPoint is the perfect starting place! After explaining what is meant by "author's craft", I focused on six techniques used by authors, including imagery, voice, figurative language, analogy, sentence fluency, and interesting use of language. In all, students will analyze twenty-one book excerpts, and make judgments about how an author crafted a particular sentence, paragraph, o