When students are first learning how to make the three types of connections to literature: text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world, it can be an easier access point to use song lyrics they are familiar with before asking them to consider the connections they are able to make with a novel for instance. Letting students analyze song lyrics they love will usually guarantee they have already spent time in their rooms, staring out windows pondering how they can personally relate to the words, and how they relate to other texts and the world around us.