Read the excerpt from Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Unable to sleep, I resigned myself to await his return by counting states. Miss Crocker had had a big thing about states, and I sometimes found that if I pretended that she was naming them off I could fall asleep. I decided to count the states geographically rather than alphabetically; that was more of a challenge.

How best could a reader make a text-to-self connection for this excerpt?

by asking one’s sibling what it is like to have trouble falling asleep

Explanation:

Text-to-self connections refers to the personal connections which a reader makes between a piece of reading material and the personal experience of the reader.

Since in the excerpt, the person couldn't sleep, then the reader can make a text-to-self connection for this excerpt by asking one’s sibling what it is like to have trouble falling asleep.

each poet admires poetry

they each admire poetry because they could just use an expression or verbally just say you but they both write in in poetry which shows they know how to write in poetry.