A teaching or learning strategy that starts with the first step of a sequence and progressively adds subsequent steps until the entire behavior chain is mastered.
Example: Teaching hand-washing by first mastering turning on the water, then adding soap application, then scrubbing, and so on until the complete sequence is learned.
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