Creating an inclusive writing environment

Webcasts for Educators has a ton of great (free!) webcasts about Literacy. I just finished watching Part 5: Using Texts of All Types: Student Engagement, and it was fantastic. Students were using a lot of the communication strategies that I've been reading about in books that focus on inquiry-based Math. It was interesting to see how engaging it is for students to be asked to agree or disagree with their peers ideas (in a positive, collaborative way), and how much more invested they are in their own learning when they need to have opinions and evidence to support their opinions.