Commenting Approach

What I would like to do is post a number of pages on my weblog, and, on my front page, invite people to read them and then comment on them.

I’m thinking the best way to do this is to add a comment block to certain of the pages.

1) Is there another strategy for this…like set up posts that point to the pages? Seems like those would “roll out of view”.
2) If I want to do the comments per page, do I need to create a new page template?
2) I see posts in the forum that say “use the example from single.php”…where can I find that?

Thanks!