This paper investigates the relationship readers with different levels of prior knowledge construct among procedural text elements, specifically, among the goal, the actions and the outcome of a procedural text. Readers were either beginners, intermediates, or experts in using a particular software. Our hypothesis was that the main difference between the prior knowledge organization of beginner, intermediate, and advanced subjects was due to the relationship among a goal, the necessary actions to attain this goal, and the obtained outcome. An experiment using a primed recognition task with the goal as prime and both the outcome and the actions as targets confirmed this hypothesis. The primed recognition results were simulated with the Construction-Integration model of comprehension (Kintsch, 1998).