We taught a fifth grade student in resource room how to set goals and monitor his progress toward achieving them in the area of story writing by using the self-regulated strategy development model. The steps of this approach are included in the mnemonic PLANS (Pick goals, List ways to meet goals, And make Notes, Sequence notes). These steps were used to help this student improve his writing in terms of content, elaboration and word count through both goal-setting and learning the steps of the writing process. We enhanced this model by giving greater emphasis to the goal setting dimension and changing the mnemonic to P(paw)LANS. Post-testing showed that the student's writing improved in both length and in the quality of story elements included in his stories. The student also seemed to gain confidence and show heightened self-awareness of his strengths and weaknesses as a writer. (Contains 2 tables.)