The new fourth edition of Revolution, Industry and Empire is Book 2 of the best-selling KS3 History by Aaron Wilkes series. This planning guide helps teachers to design a coherent knowledge-rich Key Stage 3 curriculum and assessment using this Oxford textbook series. I really like the new step-by-step History Skills - it builds up the skills pupils need to apply in order to effectively analyse sources; clear pupil-friendly language allows pupils to gain confidence when looking at sources. The assessment approach is excellent too. I particularly like the way the scaffolding allows confidence to be built in preparation for the 'big write'.