A educadora falou com a criança com calma.

In Portuguese, it is very common to use the definite article before a noun, even when English would often leave it out.

So A educadora means the educator.

Portuguese uses articles more often than English does, especially with specific people or things already identified in context. Saying just educadora here would sound incomplete unless it appeared in a different structure.

Falou is the 3rd person singular of the verb falar in the pretérito perfeito simples.

Here that means:

• falar = to speak / to talk
• falou = spoke / talked

It refers to a completed action in the past:

• A educadora falou... = The educator spoke...

In European Portuguese, this tense is very commonly used for completed past actions.

The verb falar often combines with com when you mean to speak with / to talk to someone.

So:

• falar com alguém = to speak to/with someone

Examples:

• Falei com o professor. = I spoke to the teacher.
• Ela falou com a criança. = She spoke to the child.

Even though English often says talk to, Portuguese normally uses com here.

Because the two com phrases do different jobs:

• com a criança = tells you who the educator spoke to
• com calma = tells you how she spoke

So:

• falar com alguém = speak to someone
• com calma = calmly / in a calm way

This repetition is perfectly normal in Portuguese, even if it may look a little unusual to an English speaker at first.

Yes, functionally it works like an adverbial expression.

Literally, com calma means with calm, but in natural English it usually means:

• calmly
• in a calm way
• patiently, depending on context

Portuguese often uses expressions like com + noun where English prefers an adverb.

Examples:

• com cuidado = carefully
• com atenção = attentively
• com calma = calmly

Because calma here is a noun, not an adjective.

In com calma, calma means calm or calmness. The noun calma is feminine, so it appears as calma.

It is not agreeing with criança or educadora. It is simply the fixed expression:

• com calma = with calm / calmly

So this is not:

• a criança calma = the calm child

It is:

• falou com calma = spoke calmly

Yes. You could say:

• A educadora falou calmamente com a criança.

That is also correct and means basically the same thing.

However, com calma often sounds more natural and everyday in Portuguese. Calmamente is perfectly correct, but it can sound a little more formal, literary, or deliberate depending on the context.

In normal interpretation, it describes how the educator spoke, so it refers to the educator’s manner of speaking.

So the most natural reading is:

• The educator spoke to the child calmly.

Grammatically, because both phrases begin with com, the sentence has a slight structural ambiguity on paper, but in real usage the intended meaning is usually clear from context.

If someone wanted to make it clearer, they might say:

• A educadora falou calmamente com a criança.

Because criança is a grammatically feminine noun in Portuguese, regardless of whether the child is male or female.

So you say:

• a criança
• uma criança

even if you are talking about a boy.

This is an important distinction:

• grammatical gender is not always the same as real-life sex

Not completely, at least structurally.

Because there are two com phrases, a learner might briefly wonder whether com calma could somehow relate to a criança. But in normal interpretation, speakers understand it as modifying the verb falou.

So the natural meaning is:

• the educator spoke to the child calmly

If you want to remove even that slight ambiguity, you can rephrase:

• A educadora falou calmamente com a criança.
• A educadora falou com a criança de forma calma.

Yes, but some versions sound more natural than others.

Natural options include:

• A educadora falou com a criança com calma.
• A educadora falou calmamente com a criança.

You could also hear:

• Com calma, a educadora falou com a criança.

That version gives more emphasis to com calma.

So the original word order is correct, but Portuguese has some flexibility depending on emphasis and style.

Yes. Educadora is feminine.

The masculine form is:

• educador

So:

• A educadora falou com a criança. = The female educator spoke to the child.
• O educador falou com a criança. = The male educator spoke to the child.

The article changes too:

• a for feminine singular
• o for masculine singular

Yes. In many contexts, falar can correspond to both speak and talk in English.

For example:

• Ela fala português. = She speaks Portuguese.
• Ela falou com a criança. = She talked to / spoke to the child.

English often distinguishes speak and talk a bit more, but Portuguese falar covers both in many common situations.