A text-structure approach to comprehension is critical to helping students understand and retain the text.
"Students, who are aware of text structure as they read, organize and retain the information as they read," (Rand, 2002).
"Children with unexpectedly poor comprehension have difficulties with these three text processing skills: integration and inference, comprehension monitoring, and knowledge and use of story structure. These skills contribute to growth in reading comprehension during middle childhood," (Cain, 2009)
"Good comprehenders are extremely active as they read, using a variety of com- prehension strategies in an articulated fashion as they read challenging text," (Pressley, 2o02).
"Knowledge of text structure is vital to improving reading comprehension, (Dewitz, 2018).