The ability to read, think, and understand purposefully, making connections between the text and the reader. Comprehension is using the reader's background knowledge to understand the context of the text. Narrative texts can be fiction or non-fiction stories. Includes a clear structure with a beginning, middle, and end. Incorporates elements such as plot, theme, characters, setting, conflict, and solution. The primary purpose of narrative texts is to entertain, inform, or teach a moral lesson. 

• Understanding text structure provides a skeleton outline for a text that allows the reader to understand the author's meaning  through understanding the way the text is organized.

• To help ELL students with comprehension of narrative texts instructors should provide

1. models of "what good readers do" to get information from expository texts 

2. explicit instruction on how narrative texts are structured 

3. opportunities for peer interaction with the content of the text in order to increase comprehension

4. opportunities for practice so that ELL students can identify and interact with the text.

• Students can remember and learn more from the text if they have some background familiarity with the context.