ACTOR: Key to Efficient Reading is designed to enable college students to become focused, engaged and productive readers before, during and after reading. This book is divided into twelve chapters that include the skills and strategies that can help students cope with the demands of reading college materials, completing reading assignments and taking reading tests. The first chapter explains the causes of poor comprehension, the steps in ACTOR (Activate, Connect, Trigger strategies, Organize ideas and Respond) and the strategies that students can follow to become an efficient reader. The rest of the chapters demonstrate how to use ACTOR in acquiring the reading skills and strategies that students need in thoroughly comprehending reading materials of different genres and varying difficulty and interest levels. Most of the informational texts that are included in this book were derived from newspapers, magazines and college textbooks such as Psychology, Sociology, Philosophy, Criminal Justice, Architecture, Dance, Literature, Music, Biology, Health, Archaeology, Music, Sustainability, Women Studies, Astronomy, Sociology, Arts, Digital Literacy and Career Planning. This book also includes inspirational stories that can benefit students in their life journeys.
