This paper proposes a model of microcounseling training for increasing the ability of the reading instructor to be a facilitative interviewer when working with students. The microcounseling training model is based on five essential propositions: that it is possible to lessen the complexity of the counseling or interviewing process through focusing on single skills; that the microcounseling training model provides important opportunities for self-observation and confrontation; that interviewers can learn from observing video models demonstrating the skills they are attempting to develop; that model training can be used to teach interviewing skills from a diverse and practical perspective; and that microcounseling training sessions are real interviewing sessions. The twelve basic microcounseling skills around which the reading instructor or trainee would focus his initial training in interviewing are: attending behavior, open invitation to talk, minimal encouragement to talk, reflection of feeling, paraphrasing, summarization of feeling, summarization of content, learning client's attitudes toward tests, expression of feeling, sharing behavior, direct mutual communication, and interpretation. (WR)